IGY: Year of Discovery
Title | IGY: Year of Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney Chapman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Atmosphere |
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During International Geophysical Year, a team of scientists from 67 countries, led by Sydney Chapman, pooled their knowledge, experience, resources, to explore the Earth and its atmosphere. From earthquakes to the Aurora and other effects of solar radiation, they worked to build an intellectual base for further studies of "our corner of the universe".
Assault on the Unknown
Title | Assault on the Unknown PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Sullivan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Geophysics |
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Account of the International Geophysical Year which ran from July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958 and focused on international research and exchange of data relating to meteorological observations.
Deep Freeze
Title | Deep Freeze PDF eBook |
Author | Dian Olson Belanger |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 2011-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1457109573 |
In Deep Freeze, Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice. In the tense 1950s, even as the world was locked in the Cold War, U.S. scientists, maintained by the Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, came together in Antarctica with counterparts from eleven other countries to participate in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). On July 1, 1957, they began systematic, simultaneous scientific observations of the south-polar ice and atmosphere. Their collaborative success over eighteen months inspired the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, which formalized their peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge. Still building on the achievements of the individuals and distrustful nations thrown together by the IGY from mutually wary military, scientific, and political cultures, science prospers today and peace endures. The year 2007 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the IGY and the commencement of a new International Polar Year - a compelling moment to review what a singular enterprise accomplished in a troubled time. Belanger draws from interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official records to weave together the first thorough study of the dawn of Antarctica's scientific age. Deep Freeze offers absorbing reading for those who have ventured onto Antarctic ice and those who dream of it, as well as historians, scientists, and policy makers
Annals of the International Geophysical Year
Title | Annals of the International Geophysical Year PDF eBook |
Author | International Council of Scientific Unions. Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Geophysics |
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The International Geophysical Year
Title | The International Geophysical Year PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Sullivan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 |
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Annals of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958
Title | Annals of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 PDF eBook |
Author | International Council of Scientific Unions. Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1959 |
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The International Geophysical Year in Retrospect
Title | The International Geophysical Year in Retrospect PDF eBook |
Author | Wallace Walter Atwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 |
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