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| William Glen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1932; 93 years ago (1932) New York, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Biostratigraphy; history of Earth sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology, historian |
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. 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
- William Glen (ed.) 1994, The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 371 pp. ISBN 0804722854
- 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.
References
- 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. S2CID 145376487.
- 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.