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The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:: Swanner, Leandra
Abstract:: This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The light within us : Quaker women in science

Creator:: McCabe, Leslie N.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

Creator:: Hahn, Linda
Abstract:: This thesis will address the transformation of biological sciences during the 1930s and 1940s and it effects on fisheries science. It will focus on Oregon State College and specifically the Department of Fish and Game Management and the interaction with the Oregon Game Commission. Support for mutation theory and neo-...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

Creator:: Ellis, D. Erik
Abstract:: The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World War II and continuing thereafter, are often overlooked in the literature on the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Energy Commission, and in regional histories. To historians of science, Hanford is described as an industrial facility that illustrates the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Stanwood, Nov. 30, 1959. DBER, Box 61, Folder 16. 13 Letter from G. Seaborg to F. Hodges (chair of ACBM

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:: notably, William F. Buckley, Jr. Nock's work was joined by that of others who feared the "collectivist

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:: (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 382-383; Herbert F. York, Arms and the Physicist

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:: of our evening sessions. Rachel, we will always have F-DIBS and the Vancouver incident for telling

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:: : F. Watts, 1996). A general history of meteorology in the twentieth century remains lacking. a

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

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

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The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

The light within us : Quaker women in science

In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

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

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

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

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

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

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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