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Filtering by: Creator Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945 Committee Member Nye, Mary Jo

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:

Harper, Kristine C.

Abstract:

American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...

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Dissertation

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of Numerical Weather Prediction in the United States. Abstract approved: E. Doel American
Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:

Zimmerman, Katharine

Abstract:

The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...

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Masters Thesis

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, whose phone is always answered, whose e-mails are promptly responded to, and whose words in any