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On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996). The cult

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:: : William G. Robbins The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World

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

Mormons and evolution : a history of B. H. Roberts and his attempt to reconcile science and religion

Creator:: Reid, Tim S.
Abstract:: Although much has been written describing the various reactions to the origin of Species in America, the Mormon reaction to Darwinism has been largely ignored. This dissertation will recount the history of this reaction as exemplified by the life and works of B. H. Roberts. Roberts's intellectual pursuits early in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , 1865-1912 (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976). 21Windsor Hall Roberts, The Reaction of American

An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

Creator:: Wollert, Edwin Del
Abstract:: While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and Film; Professor William Todd Jarvis, with the Water and Watershed Institute, and also for

Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

Creator:: Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: not educated in conventional graduate programs of classical astronomy. Lick Observatory, under W. W

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

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:: Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1973); John Archibald Wheeler and

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:: zoologists and geneticists contacted Dunn for suggestions about whom they should hire. Beverly W. Kunkel of

Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

Creator:: Hahn, Andre M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: interesting T. H. Huxley, “Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe,” Nature 1, no. 1 (November 4, 1869): 9–1 11. F. J

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On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

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

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

Mormons and evolution : a history of B. H. Roberts and his attempt to reconcile science and religion

An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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

Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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