104 Loeb and Northrop’S Experimental Manipulation of Longevity Was Deeply Related to the Discourse on Immortality at That Time
Refiguring Old Age: Shaping Scientific Research on Senescence, 1900-1960 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Hyung Wook Park Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine University of Minnesota IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and John M. Eyler July, 2009 © Hyung Wook Park, 2009 Acknowledgements In completing this project, I am indebted to many people. First of all, I am deeply grateful for my advisors, Professors Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and John M. Eyler. Their significance in my academic growth cannot be overstated. They have been great teachers and thoughtful mentors who showed me what is to become a historian of science and medicine. I also appreciate my dissertation committee chair and members, Professors Mark Borrello, Susan Jones, and Jennifer Gunn. Besides reading and commenting on my long dissertation, they have always been helpful whenever I sought their advice concerning my publications and presentations. I thank other scholars in our program, especially Professors Alan Shapiro, Robert Seidel, and Thomas Misa. Their classes, which I attended as a student or a teaching assistant, stimulated the growth of my scholarship. In addition, I should not omit my gratitude toward my fellow graduate student colleagues, including Sara Cammersi, Amy Fisher, Suzanne Fischer, Gina Rumore, Barbara Reiterer, Adrian Fischer, Nathan Crowe, Maggy Hofius, Don Opitz, and Nick Martin. They have been my encouraging and sincere friends. There are people outside of the University of Minnesota to whom I should express my thanks. I appreciate the archivists and librarians whom I met during my research travels from 2005 to 2007, including Willam Wallach at the University of Michigan, Clare Porter at the Nuffield Foundation, Nicholas Scheetz at Georgetown University, David Corson at Cornell University, Paul Anderson and Martha Riley at Washington University, and others whose name I do not remember.
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