The Earth, the heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union, 1994. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 252 p.) : ill., map. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of geophysics, 8755-1217 ; v. 5 History of geophysics ; v. 5. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9130425 |
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| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Earth, the heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington / |c edited by Gregory A. Good ; with a foreword by Maxine Singer. |
| 260 | |a Washington, D.C. : |b American Geophysical Union, |c 1994. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a History of geophysics, |x 8755-1217 ; |v v. 5 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Andrew Carnegie and Charles Doolittle Walcott: the origin and early years of the Carnegie Institution of Washington / Ellis L Yochelson -- Development and promotion of the initial scientific program for the geophysical laboratory / H S Yoder -- Vision of a global physics: The Carnegie Institution and the first world magnetic survey / Gregory A Good -- Vilhelm Bjerknes's duty to produce something clear and real in meteorological science / Ralph Jewell -- Climate and history: Raphael Pumpelly's geoarcheological expeditions to Turkestan / Peggy Champlin -- Weighing the Earth from a submarine: the gravity measuring cruise of the U.S.S. S-21 / Naomi Oreskes -- Amundsen and Edmonds: entrepreneurial and institutional exploration / S M Silverman, Marion Edmonds Smith -- Expeditions and the CIW: comments and contentions / Ronald E Doel -- Sharing a mountaintop: the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Mount Wilson / R S Brashear -- A fox raiding the hedgehogs: how Henry Norris Russell got to Mt. Wilson / David H Devorkin -- Converting an hypothesis into a research program: T. C. Chamberlin, his planetesimal hypothesis, and its effect on research at the Mt. Wilson Observatory / N S Hetherington -- Women and women's work at Mt. Wilson Observatory before World War II / John Lankford -- Commentary on the Mt. Wilson papers / Owen Gingerich -- The big story: Tuve, Breit, and ionospheric sounding, 1923-1928 / C Stewart Gillmor -- Building a Washington network for atmospheric research / Bruce Hevly -- To Watheroo and back: the DTM in Australia, 1911-1947 / R W Home -- Some memories of the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory / W D Parkinson -- A Canadian life with geomagnetism: the research of Frank T. Davies / J E Kennedy, W O Kupsch -- Dr. C. T. Kwei and the Carnegie in China in 1930s and 1940s / Wang Shen, Liang Baixian, Hu Xinru -- Chopping and changing at the DTM 1946-1958: M. A. Tuve, rock magnetism, and isotope dating / H E Le Grand -- Merle A. Tuve's post-war geophysics: early explosion seismology / Thomas D Cornell -- Isotope geology at Carnegie 1950-1970: dating earth processes / L T Aldrich -- Archival sources for the history of geosciences / Deborah Day -- Sources for the history of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at the Office of Administration / John Strom -- The Carnegie Institution of Washington's contributions to the physical sciences: archival sources at the Huntington Library / R S Brashear -- Sources for history of geophysics at the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics / Ronald E Doel -- The earth and space sciences at Carnegie: a pictorial sampler from the first six decades / Shaun J Hardy. | |
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