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Geodesy? What's That?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Geodesy? What's That?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

Geodesy (the measurement of the size and shape of the earth), fascinating since the time of Erathosenes, became a basic science for the space program. Irene Fischer was a leader in the construction of the World Geodetic System (has an Earth reference ellipsoid named in her honor) when it was still being done by surveyors, piecing together terrestrial, gravitational and astronomical data. By the 1970s, satellite geodesy and marine geodesy were just coming into their own. Using her career, Fischer revels in explaining how the science unfolded, and how misunderstandings occur across scientific fields, e.g., why the "standard ocean" and the geoid do not easily translate across the fields of ocea...

Memorial Tributes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Memorial Tributes

This is the fourteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased.

Women Scientists in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 700

Women Scientists in America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-02
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

This survey of female scientists in recent American history “offers compelling data alongside the multiple stories of individual women” (Science). The third volume of Margaret W. Rossiter’s landmark survey of the history of American women scientists focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. Central to this story are the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of affirmative action. Scores of previously isolated women scientists were suddenly energized to do things they had rarely, if ever, done before—form organizations and recruit new members, start rosters and projects, put out newsletters, confront authorities, and even fight (a...

Surveying and Mapping
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Surveying and Mapping

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Army Research and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Army Research and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Technoscientific Imaginaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

Technoscientific Imaginaries

What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the twentieth century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are the people behind the new technologies, and how do they address the difficult moral and professional issues during a time of global change? Techno-Scientific Imaginaries explores these and other important questions at the approach of the new millennium. In these penetrating essays, twenty-four distinguished contributors from a broad range of fields present the voices of the scientists themselves—through interviews, conversations, and memoirs. We hear from Lithuanian physicists who discuss science after Communism and their o...

Sounding the Limits of Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Sounding the Limits of Life

What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the computational life sciences, marine biology, astrobiology, acoustics, and more, Helmreich follows ...

The Israel Honorarium: The biographical section of American Jewry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Israel Honorarium: The biographical section of American Jewry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Sciences of the Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Sciences of the Earth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The planet as seen by its inhabitants In two millenia, our knowledge of the planet and its natural laws and forces has undergone remarkable changes--from the religious belief of earth as the center of the universe to the modern astronomers' view that it is a mere speck in the cosmos. Now a first-of-its-kind reference work charts this remarkable intellectual progression in our evolving perception of the earth by surveying the history of geology, geography, geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, space science, and many other fields. Covers human understanding of the Earth in various times and cultures The Encyclopedia traces our understanding of the earth and its functioning throughout history...

Civil Service Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Civil Service Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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