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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....
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    Dissertation
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    -1945…………………..….123 Establishing Refugee Organizations Locally and Nationally…………………..128 Assisting

  • 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-...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Oregon State College from 1920- 1945, shows how one unexceptional person interpreted the debate

  • The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

    Creator:
    Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
    Abstract:
    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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    underscores the importance of one such petition, the Franck Report, which Szilard contributed to in 1945