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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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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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two women were elected governors of their respective states. Nellie Tayloe Ross became governor of
In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

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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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Grant Conklin, Thomas Hunt Morgan and Ross Granville Harrison, whose work in separate fields was
Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

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Christensen, Terry M.

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

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Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)

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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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Oregon State University. Graduate School5

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Mentoring in science2
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-20082
Dunn, L. C. (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1
Fishery management -- Oregon -- History1
Geneticists -- United States -- Biography1
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