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Record #197495:

Sydney Chapman: dynamo behind the International Geophysical Year / Gregory A. Good.

Title: Sydney Chapman: dynamo behind the International Geophysical Year / Gregory A. Good.
Author(s): Good, Gregory A.
Date: 2010.
Publisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan
In: Globalizing polar science : reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years. (2010.),
Abstract: Examines how Sydney Chapman, president of special committee that organised activities of 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, earned his reputation both as geophysicist and organiser of international scientific collaboration on grand scale.
Notes:

In: Globalizing polar science : reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years / Roger D. Launius, James Rodger Fleming, David H. DeVorkin, eds.

Keywords: IGY1957-58 -- IGY 1957-58.
001.89(100) -- Research programmes, international: International Geophysical Year 1957-58.
5(091) -- History of science.
550.3 -- Geophysics.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
92 -- Biographies: Chapman, Sydney.
93"195" -- 1950-1959.
V -- History.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*7) -- Antarctic regions.
SPRI record no.: 197495

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