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Mott T. Greene

Columbia College, Class of 1967

Historian of science.

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Historian of science

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Mott T. Greene

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Class of 1967 (Columbia College)

Works (50)

  1. 1981 History of Concepts in Precambrian Geology. W. O. Kupsch , W. A. S. Sarjeant · Isis
  2. 1982 Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World · Cornell University Press
  3. 1983 Alfred Wegener. Hans-Gunther Korber · Isis
  4. 1983 Radiometrists and Plate Tectonics: The Road to Jaramillo . Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science. William Glen. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1982. xx, 460 pp., illus. $37.50 · Science
  5. 1983 “Radiometrists and Plate Tectonics: The Road to Jaramillo” · Science, vol. 219, pp. 958–960
  6. 1984 Geology in the Nineteenth Century
  7. 1985 Die Einfuhrung des Naturselbstdruckes und der Photographie in die erdwissenschaftliche Dokumentation. Franz Kirchheimer · Isis
  8. 1985 History of Geology · Osiris
  9. 1985 Plate Tectonics and Biogeography in Historical Perspective · Earth Sciences History
  10. 1987 The Dark Side of the Earth. Robert Muir Wood · Isis
  11. 1987 The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics. H. W. Menard · Isis
  12. 1989 Afterword · History of Geomorphology
  13. 1990 Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute. James A. Secord · Isis
  14. 1990 Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences. S. Warren Carey · Isis
  15. 1992 The Highlands Controversy: Constructing Geological Knowledge through Fieldwork in Nineteenth-Century Britain. David R. Oldroyd · Isis
  16. 1993 Oceanography's Double Life · Earth Sciences History
  17. 1994 La favola della terra mobile: La controversia sulla teoria della deriva dei continenti. Marco Segala · Isis
  18. 1994 Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World. Martin J. S. Rudwick · Isis
  19. 1997 What cannot be said in science · Nature
  20. 1998 Alfred Wegener and the Origin of Lunar Craters · Earth Sciences History
  21. 1999 Mom Always Liked You BestBorn to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. Frank J. Sulloway · Isis
  22. 1999 “Mom Always Liked You Best” · Isis, vol. 90, pp. 332–338
  23. 2000 Ancient Reasons for Monsters · Science
  24. 2000 High achiever · Nature
  25. 2001 A tool, not a tyrant · Nature
  26. 2003 Clifford M. Nelson (Editor). Records and History of the United States Geological Survey. (USGS Circular 1179.) Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey, 2000. CD‐ROM. Free. · Isis
  27. 2004 Ernest B. Hook (Editor). Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect. 378 pp., illus., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $80 (cloth). · Isis
  28. 2004 The birth of modern science? · Nature
  29. 2005 Seeing clearly is not necessarily believing · Nature
  30. 2006 Hasok Chang. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. xiii + 286 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth). · Isis
  31. 2006 Looking for a general for some modern major models · Endeavour
  32. 2007 Fathoming the Ocean · Minerva
  33. 2007 The demise of the lone author · Nature
  34. 2007 Writing Scientific Biography · Journal of the History of Biology
  35. 2009 Gary Alan Fine. Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction. xii + 294 pp., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $39 (cloth). · Isis
  36. 2009 Geology · The Cambridge History of Science
  37. 2009 Leopold von Buch. Gesammelte Schriften. Edited by Bernhard Fritscher. Facsimile of the 1867–1885 edition edited by J. Ewald, J. Roth, and W. Dames. 4 volumes in 5 parts. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008. €840. · Isis
  38. 2009 Man, myth, geologist · Nature Geoscience
  39. 2011 Lewis Pyenson. The Passion of George Sarton: A Modern Marriage and Its Discipline. xlvi + 495 pp., illus., app., index. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007. $90 (cloth). · Isis
  40. 2012 Foreword · The Continental Drift Controversy Wegener and the Early Debate
  41. 2013 Michael D. Gordin. The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. x + 291 pp., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $29 (cloth). · Isis
  42. 2015 Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift · Johns Hopkins University Press
  43. 2015 David I. Spanagel. DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York. xii + 270 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $54.95 (cloth). · Isis
  44. 2017 First get it right, then get it written · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
  45. 2017 Wladimir Köppen’s 1901 Map of Global Climate Zones · Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs
  46. 2018 Alfred Wegener
  47. 2018 Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information by Eva Hemmings Wirtén · Biography
  48. 2018 The imperial roots of climate science · Nature
  49. 2020 Henry R. Frankel (1944–2019) · Earth Sciences History
  50. 1967 Major developments in geotectonic theory between 1800 and 1912

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