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

Creator:

Ellis, Erik

Abstract:

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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with me: J. J. Gonor; Kenneth Boss, Paul Dayton, Art Whiteley, Bruce Menge, Jane Lubchenco, Robert
Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Creator:

Jolly, J. Christopher

Abstract:

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