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David P. D. Munns, Kärin Nickelsen
From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They've imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a bu
Autor:
David P. D. Munns
Promising an end to global hunger and political instability, huge climate-controlled laboratories known as phytotrons spread around the world to thirty countries after the Second World War. The United States built nearly a dozen, including the first
Autor:
David P. D. Munns
Publikováno v:
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 51:232-268
In the 1950s, American public universities began training a vast new cadre of nuclear engineers, technicians, and scientists in specially designed and built “teaching reactors.” As this article describes, a generation of nuclear engineering under
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https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.232
https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.232
Publikováno v:
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 51:169-178
This special issue, “Revealing the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project,” highlights the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project at the University of Michigan, a program of civilian nuclear research established after World War II that also memorialize
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https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.169
https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.169
Autor:
David P. D. Munns
Publikováno v:
History of science. 59(4)
For much of the twentieth century, plant physiologists considered themselves in an ideal position to study and explain the functions and processes of plants. Much of that authority stemmed from plant physiologists’ long-standing commitment to exper
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32927976
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32927976
Autor:
Kärin Nickelsen, David P. D. Munns
Publikováno v:
History and Technology. 33:272-299
Startled by NASA’s decision to let orbiting astronauts collect their own feces in a bag for medical experiments, a pair of sanitary engineers at Berkeley designed an algae-based bio-regenerative system to recycle oxygen, water, and even nutrients.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2018.1453911
https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2018.1453911
Autor:
David P. D. Munns
Publikováno v:
Science. 368:40-40
Christopher Wanjek9s Spacefarers is an optimistic treatise on commercial endeavors that seek to increase the number of people in space by employing more efficient and cheaper launch vehicles and systems. "The market is there; the technology is almost
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb1992
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb1992
Autor:
David P. D. Munns
Publikováno v:
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 50:29-40
This paper describes how, from the early twentieth century, and especially in the early Cold War era, the plant physiologists considered their discipline ideally suited among all the plant sciences to study and explain biological functions and proces
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.01.002
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.01.002