Computing: The 1940s and 1950s

[Homeopathic strategies: the Homeopathic League of Rio Grande do Sul in the 1940s and 1950s].

Although the period following 1930 has been considered an era in which homeopathy lost ground within academia, homeopaths nevertheless were advocating for their proposals in a variety of spaces. One such instance was represented by the Homeopathic League of Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 1941, which published a journal until the 1970s, set up three free dispensaries to serve the population in Po...

The War on Books and Ideas: The California Library Association and Anti-Communist Censorship in the 1940s and 1950s

Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) Landrace Persistence in the Bajío of Mexico: A Survey of 1940s and 1950s Collection Locations1

Many centers of crop domestication and diversity are experiencing rapid changes in agriculture practices resulting in the loss of crop varieties and the knowledge and customs that have sustained them (Brush 2004; Harlan 1975). Germplasm diversity is threatened by several factors including: replacement by high-yielding varieties, a shift to cash crop cultivation, change in land use, economic inc...

Measuring the Economizing Mind in the 1940s and 1950s The Mosteller-Nogee and Davidson-Suppes-Siegel Experiments to Measure the Utility of Money

The paper studies the origin, content and impact of two experiments to measure the utility of money. The first experiment was performed between 1948 and 1949 by F. Mosteller and P. Nogee, and grew directly out of Mosteller’s discussions with M. Friedman and L.J. Savage. The second was carried out in 1954 by D. Davidson, P. Suppes, and S. Siegel. Both experiments relied on expected utility theor...

Generative phonology in the late 1940s

The spring issue of Language of 1949 brought a remarkable new paper to its readers on the behavior of morphophonemes, and the techniques that should be used to uncover them.1 This paper was entitled Automatic alternations, (Wells 1949) and was the work of a young professor at Yale University, Rulon S. Wells (1919-), who would much later in 1976 be president of the LSA. It tackled the question o...