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Filtering by: Funding statement This study was mainly funded by the US Office of Naval Research, the US Navy Chief of Naval Operations, and the Environmental Readiness Program. Committee Member Nye, Robert

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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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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threshold dose below which no irreparable harm was incurred. This important concept formed the basis of and
Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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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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with Ray's early life in West Coast society of the 1920s and l930s, this study traces Ray's formal
The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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Koroloff, Rachel

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Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...

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political traditions. This study attempts to address the general theme of the relation between science and

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Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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