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Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

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Richards, Linda Marie

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The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...

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“Motion for Leave to File a Brief of Amicus Curiae.” Albert Smith Bigelow, William Huntington, George
Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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Canavan, Barbara C.

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By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...

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5 Cronon, Uncommon Ground. William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in
The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

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Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth

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The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...

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William Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb (New York