Book ID: CBB000951051

Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History (2008)

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Conway, Erik M. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xvii + 386 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Looks at the history from International Geophysical Year 1958 to the present.


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Review Turner, Roger (2010) Review of "Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 672). unapi

Review Krupar, Jason (2010) Review of "Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History". Technology and Culture (p. 751). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Heymann, Matthias
Howkins, Adrian John
Wallace, Matthew L.
Aronova, Elena
Belanger, Dian Olson
Bohn, Maria
Journals
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of Meteorology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History of Science
Journal of Geophysical Research
Publishers
Harvard University
Academic Press
Oxford University Press
University of California Press
University Press of Colorado
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Science and politics
Atmosphere (Earth)
Meteorology
Cold War
Models and modeling in science
People
Buch, Kurt
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Zhu, Kezhen
Simpson, Joanne
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
10th century
11th century
18th century
Places
United States
Canada
Soviet Union
China
Polar regions
Antarctica
Institutions
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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