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Commentator: Kathryn Olesko<br />

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

"Crushing the Enemy with His Own Weapon": Maturing Young Soviet Cadres Master Quantum Theory<br />

(<strong>and</strong> Stalinist Culture), By Karl Hall<br />

"Student Radicals" in <strong>Science</strong>: Youth Cultures <strong>and</strong> the Roots <strong>of</strong> Quantum Physics Research in Interwar<br />

Japan, By Kenji Ito<br />

The Postwar Suburbanization <strong>of</strong> American Physics, By David Kaiser<br />

The Mathematization <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong><br />

Chair: Evelyn Fox Keller<br />

Commentator: Evelyn Fox Keller<br />

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

"What Did Mathematics Do to Physics?", By Yves Gingras<br />

"The Mathematization <strong>of</strong> Monsters: Isidore Ge<strong>of</strong>froy Saint-Hilaire's Teratology", By Olivier Lagueux<br />

"Nicolas Rashevsky's Application <strong>of</strong> Theoretical Physics to Biological Problems, 1930s-40s", By Tara<br />

Abraham<br />

"The <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> Factor Analysis: An Example <strong>of</strong> Mathematization in the Humanities", By Olivier<br />

Martin<br />

Internationalization <strong>and</strong> Trans-national Communication in Mathematics: Influence on Context<br />

<strong>and</strong> Community<br />

Chair: Joseph Dauben<br />

Commentator: Joseph Dauben<br />

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

Bridging the Channel: The Contextualization <strong>of</strong> British <strong>and</strong> French Contributions to Geometric Probability,<br />

By Karen Parshall<br />

G. H. Hardy, the London Mathematical Society, <strong>and</strong> the Rise <strong>of</strong> British Pure Mathematical Research in<br />

the First Half <strong>of</strong> the Twentieth Century, By Adrian Rice<br />

A Case Study in the Evolution <strong>of</strong> a Mathematical Research Community in Pre-Unification Italy:<br />

Barnaba Tortolini (1808-1874) <strong>and</strong> the Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, By Laura Martini<br />

Statistics in the U.S. Comes <strong>of</strong> Age: A Case Study in American Influence Abroad, By Patti Hunter<br />

Atomic Opportunities <strong>and</strong> Consequences: Postwar Radiobiology in the U.S., U.K., <strong>and</strong> France<br />

Chair: David Cantor<br />

Radiation Genetics as Atomic-Age <strong>and</strong> Cold-War Eugenics, By John Beatty<br />

Proliferating Radioisotopes: The Atomic Energy Commission's Distribution Program <strong>and</strong> Postwar<br />

Biomedical Research, By Angela Creager<br />

Normal Pathways: Controlling Isotopes <strong>and</strong> Building Biomedicine in Postwar France, By Jean-Paul<br />

Gaudillière<br />

Radiobiology in Postwar Britain, By Soraya de Chadarevian<br />

Radiation Studies following World War II: Nuclear Warfare, Radiation Sickness <strong>and</strong> Curing Childhood<br />

Leukemia, By Jerry Kutcher<br />

<strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> philosophy <strong>of</strong> science: revisiting a precarious relationship<br />

Commentator: Richard Burian<br />

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

The Historicity <strong>of</strong> Epistemological Terms: Changing Notions <strong>of</strong> Error in Microscopy, By Jutta

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