Science in the American Southwest
Science in the American Southwest: a topical history George E. Webb
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, c2002.
ISBN: 0816521883
LCC: Q180
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Establishment of Science -- The Desert Revealed: The Origins of
Southwestern Science -- Applying Science / Benjamin Silliman Jr.,
Mining Consultant -- Tree Rings and Climatic Cycles / A. E. Douglass
-- The Scientific Community -- Foundations and Institutions,
1900-1940 -- Leading Women Scientists, 1920-1950 -- The Impact of
World War II -- The Foundations of Modern Science -- Astronomy in
Southern Arizona, 1889-1963 -- Darwin in the Desert: Arizona's
Evolution Controversies -- The Southwest and Interplanetary
Exploration -- From Natural Laboratory to Scientific Center.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xxi, 271, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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