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Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

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Jolly, J. Christopher

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From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...

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1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural
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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scientific attack on her late-life viewpoints can be found in Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal
Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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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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Dissertation

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I offer heartfelt thanks to the members of my committee, Mary Jo Nye, Robert Nye, Paul Farber

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Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

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

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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