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Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), scientist, teacher, Christian : a biographical study of the connection of science with religion in antebellum America

Creator:: Schoepflin, Gary Lee
Abstract:: A biographical study of Denison Olmsted, focusing upon his own Christian world view and its connection with his various activities in science, supports the view that religion served as a significant factor in the promotion of science in America during this time period. Olmsted taught physics, meteorology and astronomy at...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Brookes Spencer, for several helpful discussions concerning Olmsted's natural theology; to Dr. Daniel P

Norbert Wiener and the growth of negative feedback in scientific explanation : with a proposed research program of "cybernetic analysis"

Creator:: Hellman, Walter Daniel
Abstract:: Negative feedback has become ubiquitous in science both as a technique and as a conceptual tool. As a technique, negative feedback has a long history; devices based in its use were made in antiquity. It has only been during the last century, however, that rigorous quantitiative methods have become associated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION; WITH A PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM OF "CYBERNETIC ANALYSIS" by Walter Daniel Hellman

Henry Augustus Rowland and his electromagnetic researches

Creator:: Miller, John D. (John David)
Abstract:: This analysis concerns the life and scientific work of Henry Augustus Rowland (1848-1901), organizer and the first chairman of the physics department at The Johns Hopkins University in 1876. Special materials used in this research included three pieces of Rowland's experimental apparatus which are extant in the Smithsonian Institution Division...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the value of the magnetic studies and had them published abroad. Later in 1875 Daniel Coit Gilman

Ionizing radiation and its chemical effects : a historical study of chemical dosimetry (1902-1962)

Creator:: Chorzempa, Mary André, Sister
Abstract:: Chemical dosimetry developed in response to needs created by developments in the field of high-energy radiation. Shortly after the discovery of X-rays in 1895 and of radioactivity in 1896, the deleterious effects of ionizing radiation were recognized. To guard against the injurious effects of radiation in medical application, dose-measuring methods...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Radiology 67 Developments in Industrial Radiology 69 Ionizing Radiation, in Development Perspective 72 IV

The Oregon eugenic movement : Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair

Creator:: Currey, Linda Lorraine
Abstract:: In 1906, applying Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories to the human race, Sir Francis Galton introduced the concept of eugenics, "the science of the improvement of the human race by better breeding." The rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance and an upsurge in hereditarian thought set the stage...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Owens-Adair . . . . . . . . . . 142 IV. Owens-Adair in Relation to 19th Century Social History A

Reactions of the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica, to electromagnetic radiations in the visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray ranges

Creator:: Clark, Ervil Delwyn
Abstract:: The behavioral repertoire of the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica, was investigated to test for the occurrence of any immediate response to various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Monochromatic radiations in the visible and ultraviolet spectral regions were produced by a 150-watt xenon lamp or a ZOO watt mercury vapor lamp...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Broad-Spectrum Xenon Exposures 66 Color Variations 68 Chapter Page IV INTERPRETATIONS AND

The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

Creator:: Harburg, William A.
Abstract:: From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there has been interest in astronomy in this country. The purpose of this thesis is to show how the science of astronomy developed in America from the earliest observations by educated colonists using imported instruments and publishing in European journals, to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: War 24 Post Civil War 35 IV. THE TELESCOPE BUILDERS 44 Background and Early Constructors 44 Alvan

William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

Creator:: Benson, Keith Rodney
Abstract:: The major historical studies that have examined American biology have emphasized the development of experimental biology at the end of the nineteenth century. In this characterization, the descriptive branch of biology has often been treated as less than important and, in several cases, as a hindrance in the application of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An evaluation of a differential education program for able and gifted high school students in southwestern Oregon

Creator:: Lamb, Ronald Deane
Abstract:: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of a six week residential summer program of differential education for gifted high school students. It was designed to determine the extent to which participants in the program were proficient in aspects of critical and creative thinking, and in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 92 IV. PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE FINDINGS 93 Analysis of the Data 95 Scores of

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:: Taylor, H. Terry
Abstract:: In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this history are provided by Ernst Mayr and Daniel Kevles. 7 Implicit in nearly all the recent work

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Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), scientist, teacher, Christian : a biographical study of the connection of science with religion in antebellum America

Norbert Wiener and the growth of negative feedback in scientific explanation : with a proposed research program of "cybernetic analysis"

Henry Augustus Rowland and his electromagnetic researches

Ionizing radiation and its chemical effects : a historical study of chemical dosimetry (1902-1962)

The Oregon eugenic movement : Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair

Reactions of the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica, to electromagnetic radiations in the visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray ranges

The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

An evaluation of a differential education program for able and gifted high school students in southwestern Oregon

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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