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Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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Ellis, Erik

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This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...

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Dissertation

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selection of facts." Ronald Walters makes the point that it was not until the late decades of the twentieth
John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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Christensen, Terry M.

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This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...

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Dissertation
It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

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Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)

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Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...

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Masters Thesis

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Lawrence Farber and Ronald Doe! for their comments on an earlier draft. Those who work with the Ava Helen