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  • Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
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    1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural

  • The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

    Creator:
    Koroloff, Rachel
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    Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
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    thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature

  • Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

    Creator:
    Fraas, Picabo K.
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    In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
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    A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

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

    Creator:
    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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    to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master

  • Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

    Creator:
    Schefke, Brian R.
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    Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
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    A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

  • Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

    Creator:
    Boltseridge, Nathan H.
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    In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
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    understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection at Oregon State University libraries

  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

    Creator:
    Swanner, Leandra
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    This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
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    A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

    Creator:
    Zimmerman, Katharine
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    The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
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    permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release of my

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

    Creator:
    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    . McCabe A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • 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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    Development of American Psychology by Kevin R. Stoller A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in