History of Earth & Climate Science | Reference Information & Resources

History of Earth & Climate Science

History of Climate Change Science
Here are gathered in chronological sequence the most important events in the history of climate change science. The list of milestones includes major influences external to the science itself.

History of Science Portal | Wikipedia
Special portal section at Wikipedia on the history of science and inquiry including reference information, data, articles, photos, news, and the paths that led to our present knowledge as well as those that were abandoned.

History of the Earth Sciences Society
An international society devoted to the history of the sciences of the Earth. Also publishes the journal Earth Sciences History.

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Earth & Climate Scientists

Hess, Harry Hammond (1906 - 1969)
Professor of geology at Princeton University who was very influential in setting the stage for the emerging plate-tectonics theory in the early 1960s

Wegener, Alfred (1880 - 1930)
Climatologist and geophysicist who published The Origin of Continents and Oceans, one of the first publications to suggest continental drift and plate tectonics

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