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Agassiz's legacy : scientists' reflections on the value of field experience / Elizabeth Higgins Gladfelter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gladfelter, Elizabeth H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--Interviews.
- Scientists.
- Research.
- History.
- Science--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Research--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Natural Sciences at the End of the Twentieth Century 3
- 2 The World War II Generation 27
- William McFarland 29
- Holger W. Jannasch 38
- Henry Joseph Thompson 47
- Eugene Kozloff 54
- Elizabeth Bunce 59
- John H. Ryther 65
- John M. Kingsbury 72
- John Vernberg 78
- Summary: Changing Tides 83
- 3 The Silent Generation of the 1950s 85
- Stephen A. Wainwright 87
- Frederick Nagle 95
- Carl Bowin 107
- Alan Kohn 113
- James M. McLelland 119
- B. Clark Burchfiel 124
- Stephen C. Porter 131
- Daniel Jean Stanley 139
- Ian Gunn Macintyre 149
- Peter W. Glynn 156
- Summary: Changing Tides 165
- 4 The Sputnik Generation: The 1960s 169
- Mimi Koehl 171
- Paul R. Pinet 180
- Park S. Nobel 186
- Peter F. Sale 194
- James G. Morin 200
- Ian Stirling 204
- Yossi Loya 217
- Daphne Fautin 232
- Rolf P. M. Bak 240
- Donald C. Potts 246
- Robert R. Warner 253
- Pamela Reid 258
- Peter Molnar 266
- Paul F. Hoffman 275
- Laurence P. Madin 281
- Peter H. Wiebe 287
- James T. Callahan 292
- Summary: Changing Tides 295
- 5 The Last of the Golden Years: The 1970s 297
- Margaret McFall-Ngai 299
- John Dacey 308
- Richard Alley 315
- C. Drew Harvell 322
- Michael Donoghue 326
- Patrick D. Nunn 333
- Constance Soja 342
- Dennis Hubbard 349
- Myra Shulman 355
- Phillip Lobel 359
- Summary: Changing Tides 365
- 6 The Lean Years: The 1980s 369
- Gabrielle Nevitt 371
- Dina Fonseca 377
- Peter Clift 382
- Joshua Sladek Nowlis 387
- Karla Parsons Hubbard 393
- Ellen Prager 397
- Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda 403
- Summary: Changing Tides 407
- 7 Natural Sciences at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century 409.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 019515441X
- 0195154428
- OCLC:
- 49860212
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