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  • Forestry

    Creator:
    Avery, Bonnie E.
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    A broad definition of forestry would include the study of trees, forests, and the habitat they provide as well as their use by people. Modern, "science-based" forestry began in the nineteenth century when Europeans looked for specialists who could address questions on wood supply and extraction both at home and...
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    Society of American Foresters was established, as was the first School of Forestry in North America at

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Fruton, "The Liebig Research Group: A Reappraisal," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

  • Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

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    Turner, Althea L.
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    In this dissertation, I posited the need to understand how an invented community (the Society for Creative Anachronism) constructs symbolic meaning in material objects and value systems. Using ethnographic methods, I focused on the Knights and their regalia as this is the most widely accepted material symbolism. People go to...
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    power within a society. The ritualistic words of Tolkien’s mythic character, Pippin, are used by an

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

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    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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    Willoughby, Orion Sherwood; Petitioners vs. United States of America In the Supreme Curt of the United

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

    Creator:
    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    is a deeply embedded aspect of Western culture. To understand American science and society in the

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

    Creator:
    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    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...
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    improvements will likely succeed only if society at large shares a fundamental belief in the value of healthy

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

    Creator:
    Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
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    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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    is essential to understanding the culture and society of Cold War America. Scientists in the post

  • Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

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    McHugh, Kathleen M.
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    Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
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    , thus collectively improving the condition of society. Richards aimed to improve living conditions

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

    Creator:
    Ellis, D. Erik
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    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...
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    Philosophical Society; Gary Lundell in the Manuscript and Archive center, University of Washington Library; and

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

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    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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    the Genetics Sections of the American Society of Zoologists and the Botanical Society of America