Article ID: CBB000110691

Science in isolation: American marine geophysics research, 1950-1968 (2000)

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Description A new interpretation of why scientists within the Soviet bloc rejected plate tectonics in contrast to its acceptance in the West.


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Authors & Contributors
Oreskes, Naomi
Greene, Mott T.
Rispoli, Giulia
Bento Cavadas
Olšáková, Doubravka
Amado Filho, Gilberto Menezes
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Pavia University Press
University of California, Santa Barbara
Westview Press
University of Washington Press
Potomac Books
Institute of Physics Publishing
Concepts
Earth sciences
Plate tectonics and continental drift
Geology
Geophysics
Oceanography
Cold War
People
Wegener, Alfred Lothar
Severdrup, Harald Ulrik
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Polar regions
Russia
Germany
England
Institutions
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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