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  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

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    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    ……………………………………………………………………...236 5. Close to Home: Personal and Regional Responses to War, 1940-1945…………240 The Dunn Family

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    handsomely from my associations with Professors, Ron Doel, Paul Farber, Melinda Gormley, William Husband

  • Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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    Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
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    The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
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    ................................................. 153 WILLIAM HUSSEY YEARS, 1905-1926, AND BEYOND .................. 156 AN ASSESSMENT OF MICHIGAN'S

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of

  • 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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    , and Critical Commentaries. 1987-1998, James Crow and William Dove, eds. (Madison, WI: University of

  • 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

  • Exploring the structural dynamics of human understanding : an historico-philosophical analysis of the problem of meaning in Heidegger and Bohr

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    Tattersall, Mason
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    This dissertation explores the structural dynamics of human understanding and particularly the concept of meaning and its connections to concepts of ultimate ground, necessity and contingency, language, and perception. It focuses on the history of the concept of meaning in early twentieth-century European physics and philosophy, through an analysis of...
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    language, William Alston, suggested that the question “is best formulated as follows: ‘What are we saying

  • 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

  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
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  • 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