Research--Presentations
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Athens, 2004
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“Organic
Matter and the Rise of Holistic Agriculture:
John Pitkin Norton and William Henry Brewer
at Yale, 1840-1900,” to the Annual
Meeting of the History of Science Society,
Minneapolis, MN, November 2005
“The
Role of Biography in History: Creativity,
Concepts, and Lives in Science at Yale, 1840-1900,”
to the Whitney
Humanities Center Fellows, Yale
University, September, 2005
“Organic
Matter and the Rise of Holistic Agriculture:
John Pitkin Norton and William Henry Brewer
at Yale, 1840-1900,” to the Annual Meeting
of the International
Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social
Studies of Biology, Guelph, Canada, July
2005
“The
Cycle of Life in Ecology: From Romantic Naturphilosophie
to the Ages of Gaia,” Guest Lecture, Franklin
and Marshall College, March 2005
“The
‘Cycle of Life’ in Ecology: Sergei Vinogradskii's
Soil Microbiology, 1885-1940,” to the Holmes
Workshop, Department of the History of Science
and History of Medicine, Yale University,
January 2005
“A
Classic in Émigré Status: The
Curious Intellectual Authority of SergeiVinogradskii
in the 1930s,” at the Conference Intelligentsia:
Russian and Soviet Science on the World Stage,
1860-1960, University of Georgia, Athens,
GA, October 2004
“The
Russian Influence on American
Soil Science,” invited paper at the Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy-Crops
Science Society of America-Soil Science Society
of America, Seattle, WA, November 2004
“Experimental
Ecology in Soil Science: The Reception of
Sergei Vinogradskii’s ‘Direct Method,’ 1920s-1930s,”
to the Annual Meeting of the International
Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social
Studies of Biology, Vienna, Austria, July
2003
“Sergei
Winogradsky’s ‘Direct Method’ and his International
School of Soil Microbiologists,” invited
paper at the Annual
Meeting of the Soil Science Society of
America, Indianapolis, IN., November 2002
“Sergei
Vinogradskii: From the ‘Cycle of Life’ to
‘Microbiological Ecology,’ 1890-1930,” to
the Annual
Meeting of the History of Science Society,
Denver, CO., November 2001
“Sergei
Vinogradskii, Nitrification, Chemosynthesis,
and the ‘Cycle of Life,’ 1875-
1905,” invited paper at the Annual
Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America, Charlotte,
NC, October 2001
“Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle
of Life, 1885-1905,” to the Joint Atlantic
Seminar for the History of Biology, Department
of the History and Sociology of Science, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 1999
“A Comparative Analysis of Historical
Methodology on Population Genetics in the
Work of V.V. Babkov, Mark Adams and Robert
Kohler,” (In Russian) an invited paper at
the St.
Petersburg Society of Natural Scientists,
St. Petersburg, Russia, February 1996
“An Interim Period Ends: An Analysis
of Theodosius Dobzhansky’s Diaries, 1929-1935,”
to the 8th National
Conference on Undergraduate Research,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI,
April 1994
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