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  • 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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    of Science on April 3, 2009. Title: John Archibald Wheeler: A Study of Mentoring in Modern Physics

  • Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

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    Harper, Kristine C.
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    American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
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    in meteorology in 1928 at MIT. It was followed by four additional programs in the interwar years

  • 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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    . 2 Walton C. John, "Graduate study in universities and colleges in the United States," U. S. Office

  • 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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    consider natural history as the search for and description of patterns in nature.14 Historian John Lewis

  • The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
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    : 1760-1850, (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1996), and Finding Order in Nature: The

  • 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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    within the Atomic Energy Commission, scientist John Gofman said, The “experts” who are in charge of

  • Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

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    Simpson, Emily M.
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    Beginning in the late-nineteenth century, several dialogues emerged concerning life on Mars. Some supported the notion of an inhabited Mars, citing recent observations of the planet, while others, pointing to a lack of concrete evidence, denied the validity of such a bold hypothesis. The dialogues within and between different...
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    (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987); For more on light pollution see John McNeil, Something New

  • 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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    Tradition from Linnaeus to E. 0. Wilson (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2000), p. 20-21. On

  • The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

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    Caulkins, Tamara L.
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    During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
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    ): 178–96. 3 John Bender and Michael Marrinan, The Culture of Diagram (Stanford, CA: Stanford University

  • 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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    . Gilbert Whittemore, "The National Committee on Radiation Protection, 1928-1960: From Professional