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

Creator:

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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Institution Archive, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA. Edmondson: W. T. Edmondson Papers (Accession 2024-003
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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and Katherine Cadwallader, Calvin T. and Judith Christensen, Gary and Jo Christensen, David and
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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; Robert A. Divine, Blowing on the Wind: The Nuclear Test Ban Debate, 1954-1960 (New York: Oxford