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  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kristin Renee Johnson for

  • 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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    , 1892-1905, AND FIRST DOCTORATES ..................... 380 W. J. HUSSEY AND REVIVAL OF GRADUATE

  • 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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    . Weather Bureau Chief Francis W. Reichelderfer encouraged von Neumann, with Office of Naval Research

  • 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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    . W. Kunkel, Kunkel to Dunn, 19 May 1937 and 11 Jan 1938, Dunn to Kunkel, 29 Aug 1938. There are

  • 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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    Science and Health in the United States, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987) and Theodore

  • 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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    and Katherine Cadwallader, Calvin T. and Judith Christensen, Gary and Jo Christensen, David and

  • 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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    , Erik Ellis, Kristin Johnson, and Chris Jolly, have been wonderful companions throughout my education

  • 'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

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    Jensen, Erica (Erica Lyn)
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    Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
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    . Alt and Donald W. Hyndman, Roadside Geology of Idaho (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company

  • Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

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    Kellar, Brenda M.
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    The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...
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    …………………………………………………………….164 17. Experiment station personnel, 1937 ……………………………………………166 18. Packing table built for

  • 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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    interesting T. H. Huxley, “Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe,” Nature 1, no. 1 (November 4, 1869): 9–1 11. F. J