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Aalto, K. R., “Joseph Silas Diller (1850–1928): Pioneer of Southern Cascadian Geology, California and Oregon,” Earth Sciences History, 25 (no. 1, 2006), 37–55.

Creager, Angela N. H., “Nuclear Energy in the Service of Biomedicine: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Radioisotope Program, 1946–1950,” Journal of the History of Biology (Dordrecht), 39 (Nov. 2006), 649–84.

Hinsley, Curtis, “Anthropology’s Organization Man: Reflections on Frederick Webb Hodge, 1864–1956,” History of Anthropology Newsletter, 32 (Dec. 2005), 3–12.

Malone, Patrick M., “Surplus Water, Hybrid Power Systems, and Industrial Expansion in Lowell,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 31 (no. 1, 2005), 23–40.

Michal, Eugene J., and Sara B. Michal, “Uranium for Atom Bombs: mit 1946–1951,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (Summer 2006), 129–37.

Moore, Bill, “A New Frontier in Science: Robert S. Kerr, James E. Webb, and Oklahoma in the Space Age,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Summer 2006), 210–32.

Plotkin, Howard, “Henry A. Ward and the Recovery of the Santa Rosa, Colombia, Meteorite,” Earth Sciences History, 24 (no. 1, 2005), 63–80.

Rader, Karen A., “Alexander Hollaender’s Postwar Vision for Biology: Oak Ridge and Beyond,” Journal of the History of Biology (Dordrecht), 39 (Nov. 2006), 685–706.

Schweber, Silvan, “Einstein and Oppenheimer: Interactions and Intersections,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 19 (Dec. 2006), 513–59.

Slater, Leo B., “Chemists and National Emergency: nih’s Unit of Chemotherapy during World War II,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 31 (no. 2, 2006), 75–80.

 

Ellis, Erik, “Dixy Lee Ray, Marine Biology, and the Public Understanding of Science in the United States (1930–1970)” (Oregon State University, 2006). Order No. DA3206985.

Pomeroy, Steven Anthony, “Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956–1983” (Auburn University, 2006). Order No. DA3215735.

Pooley, Jefferson D., “An Accident of Memory: Edward Shils, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the History of American Mass Communication Research” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3213581.

 

Brodsky, Robert F., On the Cutting Edge: Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer, and Space Ages. (New York: Gordian Knot, 2006. x, 216 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-1-884092-62-6.)

Eaton, Leonard K., Hardy Cross: American Engineer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiv, 120 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-252-02989-9.)

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