Events

September 18, 2008

Terry Christensen, Oregon State University
Miranda Paton, Cornell University

Brown Bag Lunch with Presentations by PACHS Dissertation Research Fellows

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Time:  12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Place:  American Philosophical Society Library
105 South Fifth Street

Two PACHS Fellows will report on dissertation research carried out in several Philadelphia area archives and libraries.  Terry Christensen (Oregon State University) will discuss “John Archibald Wheeler:  A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of 20th-Century Physics.” Miranda Paton (Cornell University) will discuss “Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ernst Mayr and the Synthesis of Biology: The Utility of a ‘silly, pompous, conceited old man’ .”