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Filtering by: Creator Weswig, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1912- Remove constraint Creator: Weswig, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1912- Committee Member Farber, Paul Remove constraint Committee Member: Farber, Paul Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Remove constraint Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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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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    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

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

  • John Wesley Powell : science and reform in a positive context

    Creator:
    Zernel, John Joseph, 1945-
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    John Wesley Powell worked actively for public land system reform while a director of geographical and geological surveys in the West from 1869 to 1894. Although this has won him acclaim as a conservationist, the basis of Powell's linkage of reform with scientific work is poorly understood. A study of...
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    . Powell's study of Indian culture reflected ethnologist Lewis Henry Morgan's emphasis on social