By Emeritus Professor Nicolas Rasmussen

Journal articles

Rasmussen N, 2003, 'The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (review)', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 77, pp. 221 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2003.0032

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Designs for life - Molecular biolog after world war', SCIENCE, 297, pp. 2000 - 2001, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1076048

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Of `Small Men`, Big Science and Bigger Business: The Second World War and Biomedical Research in the United States', Minerva: A Review of Science Learning and Policy, 40, pp. 115 - 146

Henry J; Neal K; Au S; O'Sullivan GM; Forge J; Robins R; Healy S; Rix M; Tabery J; Vann K; Windhorst C; Neal K; Neushul P; Clements G; Brigandt I; Rasmussen N; Travis AS; Ackert L; Knell S; Hooker C, 2002, 'Reviews', Metascience, 11, pp. 201 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02914820

Chalmers A; Ackert L; Abir-Am P; Trochatos M; Miller CR; Rasmussen N; Macleod R; Brigandt I; Barrow L; Maclean I; Carlson EA; Cozzens SE; Klestinec C; O'Grady P; Bashford A; Endersby J; Simon J; Mercer D; Oldroyd D; Verderber S; Slezak P; Cooper R; Fara P; Palat RA; Anker P; Fritscher B; Branagan D, 2002, 'Reviews', Metascience, 11, pp. 329 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02917729

Rasmussen N, 2002, 'Steroids in Arms: Science, Government, Industry, and the Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex in the United States, 1930-1950', Medical History, 46, pp. 299 - 324

Beatty J; Rasmussen N; Roll-Hansen N, 2002, 'Untangling the McClintock myths', Metascience, 11, pp. 280 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02917723

Forge J; Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Editorial', Metascience, 10, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02915142

Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Evolving scientific epistemologies and the artifacts of empirical philosophy of science: a reply concerning mesosomes', Biology and Philosophy, 16, pp. 629 - 654

Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Evolving Scientific Epistemologies and the Artifacts of Empirical Philosophy of Science: A Reply Concerning Mesosomes', Biology & Philosophy, 16, pp. 627 - 652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1012038815107

Rasmussen N, 2001, 'Plant hormones in war and peace:science, industry and government in the development of herbicides in 1940s America', Isis, pp. 291 - 316

Crozier ID; Hardy S; Rutledge D; Shanks N; Slater IJ; Lehoux D; Chalmers A; Lavine S; McDonough R; Redding P; Neal K; Stump DJ; Rasmussen N; Fan F-T; Oldroyd D; Davidson I; Andersen H; Betty Smocovitis V; Crozier I; Chakravartty A; College K; Laurent J; Tyrell I; Spath S; MacLeod R, 2001, 'Reviews', Metascience, 10, pp. 412 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02914831

Owen-Smith J; Gascoigne J; Chalmers A; Wolfe AJ; Crozier I; Crosthwaite J; Simon J; Anstey P; Clower W; Parascandola M; Campbell RL; Bigg C; Hankinson RJ; Rasmussen N; Nordlund C; Allen N; McConnell CS; Oldroyd D; Wisniewski E; Saul J; Kenen SH; Roy I; Monton B; Jackson DL, 2001, 'Reviews', Metascience, 10, pp. 232 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02914847

Turnbull D; Krips H; Dusek V; Fuller S; Sokal A; Bricmont J; Frost A; Chalmers A; Salleh A; Tauber AI; Luxford Y; Rupke N; French S; Brown PG; LaFollette H; Machamer P; Rasmussen N; Miller AJ; Schechtman M; West RS; Forge J; Oldroyd D; Demand N; Belousek DW; Schmaus W; Hong S; Chalmers A; Ankeny RA; Anstey P; Butterfield J; Gunawardena H, 2000, 'Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions', Metascience, 9, pp. 347 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913492

Zambe L; Page MJ, 2000, 'Review', Journal?, pp. 50 - 53

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'Mapping the cell: Advent of the thin section and characterization of the ER', Nature Cell Biology, 1, pp. E99 - E101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/12100

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'Author's response', Metascience, 8, pp. 260 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913267

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'Mapping the cell: advent of the thin section and characterization of the Endoplasmic Reticulum', Nature Cell Biology, 1, pp. E99 - E101

Bunting A; Robin L; Uniacke S; Rasmussen N; Holland G; Guillemin M; Catton P; Myhra S; Ankeny RA; Oldroyd D; Crozier I; Anstey P; Legg C; Garrett JE; Miller DP; Worrall J; Pickering A; Lacey H; Schweber SS, 1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 125 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02910918

Gunawardena H; McDonough R; Hepburn L; Harré R; Alexander PF; Ankeny RA; Coopersmith J; Rasmussen N; Ruse M; Franklin J; Brown PG; Cox P; Oldroyd D; Rutledge D; Servos JW; Shanks N, 1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 288 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02913270

Brooke JH; Dartnall T; Roberts C; Newcomb S; Champion R; Milne A; Kelly M; Varney W; Thomas O; Stillwell CR; Wilson LG; Anstey P; Garfield JL; Colyvan M; Cortiula M; Merson J; Rasmussen N; Vakas N; Forge J; Auyang SY; Scrine C; Rowold K, 1999, 'Reviews', Metascience, 8, pp. 444 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02910945

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'The forgotten promise of thiamin: Merck, Caltech biologists, and plant hormones in a 1930s biotechnology project', Journal of the History of Biology, pp. 245 - 261

Rasmussen N, 1999, 'What moves when technologies migrate? `Software` and hardware in the transfer of biological electron microscopy to postwar Australia', Technology and Culture, pp. 47 - 73

Sterelny K; Forge J; Crozier I; Myhra S; Albury R; Clarke S; Luxford Y; Miller DP; Nyhart LK; Chan M; McDonough R; Riggs PJ; Franklin A; Nola R; Bloor D; Cortiula M; Nickles T; Oldroyd D; Rasmussen N; Forge J; Sarjeant WAS, 1998, 'Reviews', Metascience, 7, pp. 331 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02912813

Rasmussen N, 1997, 'The early history of the electron microscope - German - Qing,L', ISIS, 88, pp. 167 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/383677

Rasmussen N, 1997, '`The Midcentury Biophysics Bubble: Hiroshima and the Biological Revolution in America`', History of Science, pp. 245 - 293

Oldroyd D; Dowe P; Mackenzie A; Bashford A; Bowker GC; Chalmers A; Crozier IJ; Dargavel J; Riemens W; Dowling A; Forrest P; Frankel D; Garfield J; Godfrey H; Grout A; Hart P; Hooker CA; Luxford Y; Maelzer B; Martin B; Rasmussen N; Reingold N; Robin L; Shortland M; Sprod T; Sutton J; Sysak J, 1997, 'A Miller’s Tale', Metascience, 6, pp. 105 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03019469

Rasmussen N, 1997, 'The mid-century biophysics bubble: Hiroshima and the biological revolution in America, revisited', HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 35, pp. 245 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327539703500301

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'Cell fractionation biochemistry and the origins of 'cell biology'', TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES, 21, pp. 319 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0004(96)10041-4

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'Lynn K. Nyhart, Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 414. ISBN 0-226-61086-1, £59.95, $75.00 (hardback); 0-226-61088-8, £21.95, $27.50(paperback).', The British Journal for the History of Science, 29, pp. 373 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400034610

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'M. Norton Wise (ed.), The Values of Precision. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp viii + 372. ISBN 0-691-03759-0. £35.00, $49.50.', The British Journal for the History of Science, 29, pp. 120 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400034130

Rasmussen N, 1996, 'Making a machine instrumental: RCA and the wartime origins of biological electron microscopy in America, 1940–1945', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 27, pp. 311 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(95)00042-9

Corones A; Dowling D; Bonnell AG; Lachapelle J; Oldroyd D; Spary E; Oldroyd B; Campbell K; Bhathal R; Dowe P; Harbus A; Legg C; Martin B; Luxford Y; Rasmussen N; Redding P; Sprod T; Sypel R, 1996, 'Reviews', Metascience, 5, pp. 167 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02988882

Crozier I; Fara P; Hodge J; Kitts B; Knight R; Myhra S; Oldroyd D; Wilson EA; Robins R; Dovers S; Forge J; Gunawardena H; Tannoch-Bland J; Leydesdorff L; Oldroyd D; Oldroyd D; Oldroyd D; Rasmussen N; Restall G; Selin H; Shortland M; Sleinis EE; Solomon F; McQuire S; Crosland M; Farrier D; Haynes R; Myhra S; Russell C; Robin L; Garrety K; Gaukroger S; Ames S; Varney W; Bozickovic V; Dowe P, 1996, 'Reviews', Metascience, 5, pp. 71 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02988889

Rasmussen N, 1995, 'Mitochondrial structure and the practice of cell biology in the 1950s', Journal of the History of Biology, 28, pp. 381 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01059387

RASMUSSEN N; GREEN PB, 1993, 'ORGANOGENESIS IN FLOWERS OF THE HOMEOTIC GREEN PISTILLATE MUTANT OF TOMATO (LYCOPERSICON-ESCULENTUM)', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 80, pp. 805 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2445600

RASMUSSEN N, 1993, 'FREUND ADJUVANT AND THE REALIZATION OF QUESTIONS IN POSTWAR IMMUNOLOGY', HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 23, pp. 337 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27757702

Rasmussen N, 1993, 'Facts, artifacts, and mesosomes: Practicing epistemology with the electron microscope', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 24, pp. 227 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(93)90047-n

Rasmussen N, 1987, 'A new model of developmental constraints as applied to the Drosophila system', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 127, pp. 271 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5193(87)80107-8

Zetter BR; Rasmussen N; Brown L, 1985, 'An in vivo assay for chemoattractant activity.', Laboratory Investigation, 53, pp. 362 - 368

RASMUSSEN N, 'THE DECLINE OF RECAPITULATIONISM IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY BIOLOGY - DISCIPLINARY CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS ON THE BATTLEGROUND OF THEORY', JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, 24, pp. 51 - 89

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