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

Creator:: Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for Social Research’s University in Exile (Arthur D. Brenner, Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The Plague of Justinian: the First Pandemic . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Medieval

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Richard Matzner, Alan Mills, Charles Misner, Daniel Rohrlich, Lawrence Shepley, S. Fred Singer, Daniel

Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Research Schools, 220; Alan Rocke, "Group Research in German Chemistry, 78; R. Steven Turner, "Vision

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

Creator:: Schweickert, Tina K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : A New Frontier for Science and Education, Edited by Alan R. Berkowitz, Charles H. Nilon, and Karen

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon ............... 39 The Growth of the Cherry in Oregon .................................. 40

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Creator:: Schefke, Brian R.
Abstract:: Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, many placed their confidence in the ability of science to improve the

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: D. Gordon, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (New York

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

Creator:: Harper, Kristine C.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: meteorologist Philip D. Thompson to co-opt numerical weather prediction (NWP) prompted the academics, Navy, and

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

Creator:: Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: disease." Simon D. Feldman and Alfred I. Tauber, "Sickle Cell Anemia: Reexamining the First 'Molecular

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

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

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

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

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