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  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

    Creator:
    Stoller, Kevin R.
    Abstract:
    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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    Emergent Period, 1820-1860," Isis (1967) 58: 151- 166; Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of

  • 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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    3 The discovery of the tau lepton is mentioned in Laurie M. Brown et al., “The Rise of the Standard

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

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    more readable form, publishing it as Traité de Ia culture des terres suivant les principes de M. Tull