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

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Hall, Alice

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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committee, Dr. Lisa Sarasohn, Dr. Robert Nye and Dr. Paul Kopperman, read my work attentively including
The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:

Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth

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The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...

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Dissertation

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, “Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench,” 561. 23 Ibid., 565. 24 See, e.g., Paul Feyerabend
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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Dissertation

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, and Ronald E. Doel. All of them played significant roles in my development as an historian. Paul