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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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. National Archive and Records Administration, College Park MD. Turner: Ruth Dixon Turner, Museum of
A. W. N. Pugin and St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate : a nineteenth-century English gothic revivalist and his church

Creator:

Burton, Kathryn Lee

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A. W. N. Pugin was a driving force in the Gothic Revival movement in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was an architect and a writer who expounded on the virtues of reviving Gothic architecture, not only for its reflection of the sacred mystery of ancient...

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Dissertation
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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, p. 222. Richard L. Miller, Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing (New York: Free Press