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

Creator:: Fraas, Picabo K.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Picabo Kai Fraas for the degree of Master of Arts in History of Science presented on

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

Creator:: Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Anna Elizabeth Dvorak for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

Creator:: Caulkins, Tamara L.
Abstract:: During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Caulkins for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on August 7, 2018

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:: Michael Hahn for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on August 6, 2018

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Creator:: Kellar, Brenda M.
Abstract:: The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Kellar for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on May 25, 2018

Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

Creator:: Simpson, Emily M.
Abstract:: Beginning in the late-nineteenth century, several dialogues emerged concerning life on Mars. Some supported the notion of an inhabited Mars, citing recent observations of the planet, while others, pointing to a lack of concrete evidence, denied the validity of such a bold hypothesis. The dialogues within and between different...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Emily M. Simpson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on June 12

Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

Creator:: Paoli, Gus R.
Abstract:: The Second World War was not just a military struggle but also a struggle between two different agriculture, food distribution, and nutrition systems in the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. At the start of the war, both countries understood that food and nutrition would play an important role and carefully...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Arts in History of Science presented on May 18, 2018. Title: Feeding Victory: The

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Creator:: Lovestone, Lauren R.
Abstract:: During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF L.R. Lovestone for the degree of Master of Arts in History of Science

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:: Wollert for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on March 15, 2017

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian influenza but also a snapshot of avian flu

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

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

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

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

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

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

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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