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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., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--Interviews.
- Scientists.
- Science--Field work.
- Science.
- Science--History--20th century.
- Research--History--20th century.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (452 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text brings together oral histories of some of the most interesting and representative field investigators to come into their scientific prime in the 1950s through the 1990s. It shows how styles, approaches, and scientific values have changed over the past fifty years and captures the experience of scientific research in the field.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Natural Sciences at the End of the Twentieth Century
- 2 The World War II Generation
- WILLIAM McFARLAND
- HOLGER W. JANNASCH
- HENRY JOSEPH THOMPSON
- EUGENE KOZLOFF
- ELIZABETH BUNCE
- JOHN H. RYTHER
- JOHN M. KINGSBURY
- JOHN VERNBERG
- SUMMARY: CHANGING TIDES
- 3 The Silent Generation of the 1950s
- STEPHEN A. WAINWRIGHT
- FREDERICK NAGLE
- CARL BOWIN
- ALAN KOHN
- JAMES M. McLELLAND
- B. CLARK BURCHFIEL
- STEPHEN C. PORTER
- DANIEL JEAN STANLEY
- IAN GUNN MACINTYRE
- PETER W. GLYNN
- 4 The Sputnik Generation: The 1960s
- MIMI KOEHL
- PAUL R. PINET
- PARK S. NOBEL
- PETER F. SALE
- JAMES G. MORIN
- IAN STIRLING
- YOSSI LOYA
- DAPHNE FAUTIN
- ROLF P. M. BAK
- DONALD C. POTTS
- ROBERT R. WARNER
- PAMELA REID
- PETER MOLNAR
- PAUL F. HOFFMAN
- LAURENCE P. MADIN
- PETER H. WIEBE
- JAMES T. CALLAHAN
- 5 The Last of the Golden Years: The 1970s
- MARGARET McFALL-NGAI
- JOHN DACEY
- RICHARD ALLEY
- C. DREW HARVELL
- MICHAEL DONOGHUE
- PATRICK D. NUNN
- CONSTANCE SOJA
- DENNIS HUBBARD
- MYRA SHULMAN
- PHILLIP LOBEL
- 6 The Lean Years: The 1980s
- GABRIELLE NEVITT
- DINA FONSECA
- PETER CLIFT
- JOSHUA SLADEK NOWLIS
- KARLA PARSONS HUBBARD
- ELLEN PRAGER
- GRETE K. HOVELSRUD-BRODA
- 7 Natural Sciences at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-770012-8
- 0-19-530341-5
- 0-19-803514-4
- 1-60256-473-6
- OCLC:
- 70720516
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