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"Workers <strong>and</strong> their families do not eat statistics": Econometrics from the "bottom-up" during World War<br />

II, By Thomas Stapleford<br />

Psychiatry <strong>and</strong> Social Progress after World War II: Julius Schreiber <strong>and</strong> the Institute for Social Research,<br />

By Paul Theerman<br />

Diffusing <strong>Science</strong> in the Popular Arena<br />

The many hats <strong>of</strong> the nineteenth-century science popularizer, By Rebecca Kinraide<br />

Shaping Public Perceptions <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> in Late-Nineteenth-Century France: The Role <strong>of</strong> La Nature, By<br />

Robert Hendrick<br />

"Journey to the Invisible World": Popular Microscopy as Popular Culture, 1919-1939, By Eric<br />

Kupferberg<br />

Popular Depictions <strong>of</strong> Scientific Detection, By Keith Barbera<br />

The Exact <strong>Science</strong>s in Ancient <strong>and</strong> Modern Society<br />

Chair: Robin Rider<br />

Why Euclid's Optics is Incompatible with Linear Perspective, By Philip Thibodeau<br />

The struggle between quaternions <strong>and</strong> vectors: the historical origin <strong>of</strong> some misunderst<strong>and</strong>ings in<br />

modern algebra, By Cibelle Silva<br />

Tension Between Practical <strong>and</strong> Theoretical <strong>Science</strong> in Nineteenth-Century America: The Case <strong>of</strong><br />

Nathaniel Bowditch, By Todd Timmons<br />

Women Mathematicians in America: The Doctoral Classes <strong>of</strong> 1940-1959, By Margaret Murray<br />

Re-positioning astronomy: evolving practices, audiences, <strong>and</strong> institutions.<br />

Chair: Deborah Warner<br />

Commentator: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang<br />

<strong>Papers</strong>:<br />

'The Sun <strong>and</strong> the Emperor's Government Belong to Everyone': Eclipse Expeditions <strong>and</strong> the Institutionalization<br />

<strong>of</strong> Astrophysics in France, 1862-1877, By David Aubin<br />

Constructing space for the new astronomy: the public science <strong>of</strong> J. Norman Lockyer, By Charlotte<br />

Bigg<br />

Photogenic Venus: The "Cinematographic Turn" in late nineteenth century astronomy, By Jimena<br />

Canales<br />

Ideologies <strong>of</strong> Managing <strong>Science</strong> <strong>and</strong> Technology<br />

Chair: Everett Mendelsohn<br />

Commentator: Cathryn Carson<br />

<strong>Papers</strong>:<br />

Redirecting research: Experiences from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft / Deutsche<br />

Forschungsgemeinschaft in the 1920s, By Jochen Kirchh<strong>of</strong>f<br />

Organizational innovations in electronic component manufacturing in Silicon Valley, By Christophe<br />

Lecuyer<br />

Business management philosophies <strong>and</strong> the Jet Propulsion Lab in the 1990s, By Peter Westwick<br />

The Mutual Dependency <strong>of</strong> the Public <strong>and</strong> the Personal in Victorian <strong>Science</strong><br />

Chair: Dorinda Outram<br />

Commentator: Dorinda Outram<br />

<strong>Papers</strong>:

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