TY  - BOOK
AU  - Good,Gregory
ED  - Wiley eBooks.
TI  - The Earth, the heavens, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington
T2  - History of geophysics,
SN  - 9781118665312
AV  - QC801 .E36 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - American Geophysical Union
KW  - Carnegie Institution of Washington
KW  - Mount Wilson Observatory
KW  - fast
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Geophysical Laboratory
KW  - swd
KW  - Geophysics
KW  - Research
KW  - United States
KW  - Space sciences
KW  - Astrophysics
KW  - Geofysica
KW  - gtt
KW  - Geschiedenis (vorm)
KW  - Astrophysique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - ram
KW  - Géophysique
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
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