William Glen (geologist)

William Glen, Ph.D. is a 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, CA.

William Glen
Born1932
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forBiostratigraphy; history of Earth sciences
Scientific career
FieldsGeology, Historian

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. ISBN 0675087996
  • William Glen, 1985, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Second Edition, Published by Geo-Resources Associates, San Mateo, Ca., 200 pp. ISBN 0675087996
  • William Glen, 1982, The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 459 pp. ISBN 0804711194[1]
  • William Glen (ed.) 1994, The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 371 pp. ISBN 0804722854[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: l47-l98, plates 15-17, 5 text figs., 1959.

References
  1. Secord, James A. (November 1984). "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): 316–318. doi:10.1017/s0007087400021373. JSTOR 4026630.
  2. Forrester, John (Spring 1995). "Reviewed Work: The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis, edited by William Glen". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 20 (2): 267–269. JSTOR 689995.

Notes
  • Learning Stewards Interview: (See "learningstewards" channel on YouTube). Dr. Glen discusses his life's work as a historian of science.


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