William Glen (geologist) explained
| William Glen |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Geology, historian |
| Known For: | Biostratigraphy; history of Earth sciences |
William Glen (born 1932) is an American geologist and historian of science. He is a former editor-at-large at Stanford University Press, former visiting scientist/historian at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, and is currently visiting scholar at Stanford University in California.
Selected bibliography
- William Glen, 1970, Exercises in Physical Geology, W.C. Brown Publishing Co., 154 pp.
- William Glen, 1975, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio, 188 pp.
- William Glen, 1985, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Second Edition, Published by Geo-Resources Associates, San Mateo, Ca., 200 pp.
- William Glen, 1982, The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 459 pp. [1]
- William Glen (ed.) 1994, The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 371 pp. [2]
- William Glen, 1959 Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene of the Western Part of the San Francisco Peninsula, University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences, University of California Press, 36, 2: 147-198, plates 15-17, 5 text figs., 1959.
Notes
- Learning Stewards Interview: (See "learningstewards" channel on YouTube). Dr. Glen discusses his life's work as a historian of science.
Notes and References
- James A. Secord. Secord, James A.. Reviewed Work: The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science by William Glen. The British Journal for the History of Science. 17. 3. November 1984. 316–318. 4026630. 10.1017/s0007087400021373. 145376487 .
- Forrester, John. Reviewed Work: The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis, edited by William Glen. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 20. 2. Spring 1995. 267–269. 689995.
