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Creator:: Read, Richard Thomas
Abstract:: In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1900--nine after 1905. Only one out of the twenty-three was born in Oregon--Herman V. Tartar (1882

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

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:: . Jerome Lettvin, Dr. William T. Martin, Prof. P. Masani, Mr. Oliver Selfridge, and Dr. Heinz von

Creator:: Lester, Jacob Franklin
Abstract:: Modern science was produced by a Christian society, and although science has had an effect on Christianity, it could not itself remain unaffected. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the subject of evolution was as much a religious as a scientific issue. The battle line was drawn and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: House of Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter; Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden; Herman Melville wrote

Creator:: Rymon, Larry Maring
Abstract:: This analysis is the study of Oregon's wildlife resources from the period prior to white settlement up to the present time, including critical projections, based on present trends and expected conditions for both human and wildlife populations in the state up to the year 2010. Prior to white settlement Oregon...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Beeson, Roberta Jane
Abstract:: Determination of the Vertebrate pedigree was a particularly enigmatic problem for evolutionary morphologists of the early post-Darwinian period. At that time, practically no characteristics were known by which the Vertebrates could be linked to any of the other animal groups. Up to the 1850's, most research in embryology and anatomy...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Willis, David L.
Abstract:: The use of radioactive isotopes as tracers in biological systems has become widespread since the close of World War II. Proper use of radiotracers requires a fundamental understanding of the physical nature of radioactivity, the characteristics of ionizing radiation, and the various methods available for measuring radioactivity. More importantly, the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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