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  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    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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    …………… 343 Appendix C: Physics Dissertations at Princeton, 1938-1978… 382 Appendix D

  • John Wesley Powell : science and reform in a positive context

    Creator:
    Zernel, John Joseph, 1945-
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    John Wesley Powell worked actively for public land system reform while a director of geographical and geological surveys in the West from 1869 to 1894. Although this has won him acclaim as a conservationist, the basis of Powell's linkage of reform with scientific work is poorly understood. A study of...
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    farther in the background Charles D. Walcott, head of the Geological Survey after Powell. 2 The

  • Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Abrams, Jesse
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    Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...
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    . Trends in number of farms and average farm size in Wallowa County, 1900- 2007

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

    Creator:
    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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    for Social Research’s University in Exile (Arthur D. Brenner, Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

    Creator:
    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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    Introduction "You might say it was out of control." Representative Chet Holifleld (D-CA), commenting on the

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    K.D. Nichols to Dave Key, June 9, 1954, ODA files, lot 60 D 257, “TTPI—Nuclear Testing—1954” Foreign