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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Terry M. Christensen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History

  • Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

    Creator:
    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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    YEARS, 1879-1891 ........................................... 146 ASAPH HALL, JR. YEARS, 1892-1905

  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

    Creator:
    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992); James B

  • Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

    Creator:
    Blanchard, Nicholas
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    By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
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    ,  M.  Stock  Breeding:  A  Practical   Treatise  on  the  Applications  of  the

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

    Creator:
    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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    eventually Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (New York: Warner Books, 1992), p. 198. '° Stevens, The

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

    Creator:
    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Clough and Kathleen Moore have also been an inspiration, both in their pedagogy and scholarly wisdom

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

    Creator:
    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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    Senator Harvey M. Kilgore to write legislative measures on governmental funding of science in 1943 and

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

    Creator:
    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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