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PhD History University of British Columbia
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Bachelors History University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Robert W. Smith is a scholar of history and the classics at the University of Alberta, and he directed the Science, Technology and Society Program in the Faculty of Arts. He researches the history of big science, especially U.S. technology and the history of spaceflight. He wrote The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology and Politics and he co-edited Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years After the Soviet Satellite. He served as the Walter Hines Page Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina in 1993–94. He held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution during the academic year 2006–07. He is interested in the technology and politics of the James Webb Space Telescope. In 2020 he was awarded the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for his histories of the Hubble Space Telescope and the planned James Webb Space Telescope.

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Robert W. Smith 's Published Works

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Fatigue Behavior of Materials under Strain Cycling in Low and Intermediate Life Range (1963) (98)
A National Observatory Transformed: Greenwich in the Nineteenth Century (1991) (56)
The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics (1989) (49)
The use of random-model tolerance intervals in environmental monitoring and regulation (2002) (27)
The informal single negotiating text (committee ii): A geographical perspective (1976) (17)
Visual Hypothesis Testing with Confidence Intervals (1997) (12)
Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe—A History of Cosmology (2008) (10)
The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics. (1990) (8)
EFFECTIVENESS OF STUDDED TIRES (1971) (7)
The Midwest Pioneer: His Ills, Cures, and Doctors Madge E. Pickard R. Carlyle Buley (1948) (5)
Slavery and Christianity in the British West Indies (1950) (4)
EFFECTIVENESS OF TIRES UNDER WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS WITH DISCUSSION (1972) (3)
The Einstein tower: an intertexture of dynamic construction, relativity theory, and astronomy (2002) (3)
Essay Review: Modern Astronomy: A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900–1975 (1981) (3)
The Legal Status of Jamaican Slaves Before the Anti-Slavery Movement (1945) (2)
Book Review: The Rhetoric of Simon Newcomb: A Scientist's Voice in American Culture: Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method (1994) (1)
Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology (review) (2006) (1)
A King's Observator: The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal. (1996) (1)
Thermal-Fatigue Crack-Growth Characteristics and Mechanical Strain Cycling Behavior of A-286 Discaloy, and 16-25-6 Austenitic Steels (1960) (1)
Atmospheric Science at NASA (1)
Early history space astronomy (2009) (1)
"Refutation" and "Rebuttal" (1964) (1)
The Road to Radial Velocities: V. M. Slipher and Mastery of the Spectrograph (2013) (1)
Folarin Shyllon. Black People in Britain, 1555–1833. New York: Oxford University Press; for Institute of Race Relations, London. 1977. Pp. x, 290. $19.50 (1979) (0)
INTEGRATED GUIDANCE FOR SHELTER MANAGEMENT. VOLUME 2. PLANNING A GROUP SHELTER (1965) (0)
INTEGRATED GUIDANCE FOR SHELTER MANAGEMENT. THE SELECTION AND RECRUITMENT OF SHELTER MANAGERS. (1965) (0)
SPECIALIZED EVALUATIONS OF SHELTER EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES. (1968) (0)
PLANNING GUIDES FOR DUAL-PURPOSE SHELTERS (1963) (0)
Book Review: X-Ray Astronomy in the USA: Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy (1985) (0)
Requirements for Simulated Occupancy Conditions of Large Protective Shelters - Phase II. (1970) (0)
AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF FEDERAL PERSONNEL IN RECRUITING SHELTER MANAGERS (1966) (0)
M. Hoskin, Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel (2013) (0)
The granite city: A history of Aberdeen (1989) (0)
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ''INTEGRATED GUIDANCE FOR SHELTER MANAGEMENT''. Final Summary Report. (1966) (0)
Book Review: ESO's Early History: The European Southern Observatory from Concept to Reality (1992) (0)
Book Review: Nasa's History in Pictures, Nasa: The Complete Illustrated History (2009) (0)
Laboratory Studies of the Effects of Physical Hazard on Shelter Management Behavior. Phase 1. Study Plan. (1972) (0)
Book Review:Henry Thornton of Clapham, 1760-1815 Standish Meacham (1967) (0)
Book Review: The History of Lick Observatory, Eye on the Sky: Lick Observatory's First Century (1989) (0)
Book Review:Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy Henry H. Bauer (1985) (0)
Selling the Space Telescope - The interpenetration of science, technology, and politics (1991) (0)
Book Review: Friedmann as Hero: Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand (1994) (0)
Book Review: Steady-State versus Big Bang: Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe (1998) (0)
The History of Space Astronomy (2005) (0)
American Wrestling vs . Jujitsu (2010) (0)
Book Review:Frame of the Universe: A History of Physical Cosmology Frank Durham, Robert D. Purrington (1984) (0)
The role of aviation technology in the Caribbean Basin (1988) (0)
Theaters of Time and Space: American Planetaria, 1930–1970 (2006) (0)
Book Review:Cosmological Constants: Papers in Modern Cosmology Jeremy Bernstein, Gerald Feinberg (1987) (0)
The future of the history of astronomy: The space telescope history project (1985) (0)
THE EFFECTS OF EXPECTATIONS ON SHELTEREE BEHAVIOR. (1968) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Katharine Anderson.PREDICTING THE WEATHER: VICTORIANS AND THE SCIENCE OF METEOROLOGY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. (2005) (0)
Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel by Michael Hoskin (2013) (0)
Book Review: THEATERS OF TIME AND SPACE: AMERICAN PLANETARIA, 1930- 1970 / Rutgers University Press, 2005 (2006) (0)
THERMA__-FATIGUE CRACK-GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANICAL STRAIN CYCLING BEHAVIOR OF A-286, DISCALOY_ AND 16-25-6 AUSTENITIC STEELS By Robert W. Smith and Gordon T. Smith (0)
Collaboration, competition, and the early history of radio astronomy (2014) (0)
INTEGRATED GUIDANCE FOR SHELTER MANAGEMENT. PLANNING A GROUP SHELTER (1965) (0)
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes John Hope Franklin (1948) (0)
An Exploratory Study to Determine the Effects of Physical Hazard on Shelter Management Behavior. (1971) (0)
AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PROBLEMS OF LARGE-SHELTER MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT, AND SMALL-SHELTER HABITABILITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF STRESS (1966) (0)
6. Astronomy in the Time of Pannekoek and Pannekoek as an Astronomer of his Times (2019) (0)
To See the Unseen: A History of Planetary Radar Astronomy Andrew J. Butrica (1997) (0)

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