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  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
    Abstract:
    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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    of working with Daniel Linke’s staff including, Atrish Bagchi, Tad Bennicoff, Dan Brennan, Jennifer

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
    Abstract:
    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Isenberg, Bahram Mashoon, Allen Mills, Charles Misner, Daniel Rohrlich, Larry Shepley, J. Fred Singer

  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

    Creator:
    Swanner, Leandra
    Abstract:
    This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    communication from Pief Panofsky, SLAC, 29 Mar 06 and 27 Jul 2006. Edwin McMillan, who succeeded Lawrence at

  • In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

    Creator:
    Hahn, Linda
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    This thesis will address the transformation of biological sciences during the 1930s and 1940s and it effects on fisheries science. It will focus on Oregon State College and specifically the Department of Fish and Game Management and the interaction with the Oregon Game Commission. Support for mutation theory and neo-...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Finley OSU Archives MSS E. E. Wilson Papers OSU Archives SG IV, Series I (Game Commission minutes

  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

    Creator:
    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
    Abstract:
    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    a great motivator. I am also grateful to David Robinson and Daniel Lykins for their genuine

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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