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  • Who Killed the Great Auk? (review)

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    Farber, Paul Lawrence
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    Auk?] Isis 2002 Farber, Paul Lawrence *Reviewing Author

  • Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France

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    Nye, Mary Jo
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    Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean...
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    (Paris: Hermann, 1950). 2 On Bohm and de Broglie see James T. Cushing, Quantum Mechanics: Historical

  • Seeing the Oceans in the Shadow of Bergen Values

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    Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
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    Although oceanographers such as Roger Revelle are typically associated with key indicators of anthropogenic change, he and other scientists at midcentury had very different scientific priorities and ways of seeing the oceans. How can we join the narrative of the triumph of mathematical, dynamic oceanography with the environmental narrative? Dynamic...
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    scientists’ attention to dynamic modeling as crucial to the early history of climate science. Paul Edwards