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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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Dissertation

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Erik Ellis for the degree of
On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:

Stoller, Kevin R.

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William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...

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Masters Thesis

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kevin R. Stoller for the degree of
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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Dissertation

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Johnson, Erik Ellis, and Bill Martin (wherever you are these days, Bill) for their sanity-saving