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Spencer R. Weart's Degrees

PhD Physics University of Colorado

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According to Wikipedia, Spencer R. Weart is the former director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics from 1971 until his retirement in 2009. Life Originally trained as a physicist, he is now a historian of science. He earned his B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then did postdoctoral studies at the Hale Observatories and California Institute of Technology, publishing papers on solar physics; from 1971 to 1974 he studied history of science in the University of California, Berkeley. While directing the AIP Center for History of Physics he taught courses at Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University.

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Spencer R. Weart's Published Works

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The Discovery of Global Warming (2003) (414)
Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (1989) (239)
The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition (2008) (190)
Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another (1998) (103)
Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid‐State Physics (1993) (89)
Peace among Democratic and Oligarchic Republics (1994) (68)
The birth and growth of sunspot regions (1970) (52)
Physics circa 1900: Personnel, Funding, and Productivity of the Academic Establishments (1975) (50)
The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century (2010) (43)
Global warming: How skepticism became denial (2011) (42)
The development of general circulation models of climate (2010) (42)
Out of the Crystal Maze (1993) (41)
Scientists in Power (1980) (39)
The discovery of rapid climate change (2003) (36)
Global Warming, Cold War, and the Evolution of Research Plans (1997) (36)
THE BIRTH OF ACTIVE REGIONS (1969) (36)
Rise of interdisciplinary research on climate (2012) (35)
What makes active regions grow. (1972) (34)
Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts (1978) (32)
The Discovery of the Risk of Global Warming (1997) (29)
Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science: Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation ed. by Matthias Heymann, Gabriele Gramelsberger, and Martin Mahony (review) (2018) (24)
The Physicist as Mad Scientist (1988) (24)
Scientists with a secret (1976) (23)
From the Nuclear Frying Pan into the Global Fire (1992) (18)
Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts: Selected Recollections and Correspondence (1980) (18)
Remarks on the Ancient Evidence for Democratic Peace (2001) (17)
The Discovery of Fission and a Nuclear Physics Paradigm (1983) (13)
The road to Los Alamos (1982) (12)
Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter (2019) (11)
Never Say Never: Wishful Thinking on Democracy and War (1999) (11)
The Development of the Concept of Dangerous Anthropogenic Climate Change (2011) (10)
The horizontal component of spicule motion (1970) (9)
The heyday of myth and cliché (1985) (9)
Photoelectric eclipse observation of the continuum at the extreme solar limb. (1969) (9)
The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Joseph Masco (review) (2016) (7)
Excerpts from an interview with John A. Eddy (2002) (6)
Interviews as Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (1981) (6)
The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (film) (1982) (6)
The rise of ‘prostituted’ physics (1976) (6)
The last fifty years—a revolution? (1981) (6)
Spencer Weart on Depicting Global Warming (2005) (6)
The Birth of the Solid‐State Physics Community (1988) (5)
Secrecy, simultaneous discovery, and the theory of nuclear reactors (1977) (4)
Production of the solar magnetic fine-structure by convection (1970) (4)
Money for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 levels (2007) (4)
Scientific Controversies: Nuclear fear: a history and an experiment (1987) (3)
Climate change impacts: The growth of understanding (2015) (3)
Jean Perrin and the reorganization of science (1979) (3)
VIBRATIONS IN A FREE-STANDING TOWER TELESCOPE (1970) (2)
RE: The discovery of global warming. (2007) (2)
Public Images of Nuclear Energy (2020) (2)
"Physics circa 1900: Personnel, Funding, and Productivity of the Academic Establishment." (1977) (2)
History of Physics (1985) (2)
Teaching Climate Science as History 1 (2017) (1)
More Notes on Global Warming (2005) (1)
A little more light on N rays (1978) (1)
On Imagining Catastrophe (2008) (1)
Cause and Effect in Global Warming (2005) (1)
Putting the Past To Work (1982) (1)
Trend-spotting: Physics in 1931 and today (2006) (1)
A Separate, Democratic Peace (1999) (1)
NUCLEAR HISTORY TIMELINE (2012) (1)
Recent Eclipse Data and the Solar Limb (1969) (1)
Peace among Republics (2001) (1)
Abraham Pais Prize Lecture: Understanding the Impacts of Global Warming: a History (2015) (0)
Photon counting during an eclipse. (1970) (0)
12. THE IMAGINATION OF SURVIVAL (2012) (0)
Chapter two. DISCOVERING A POSSIBILITY (2008) (0)
Reasons to be cheerful (2007) (0)
1. RADIOACTIVE HOPES (2012) (0)
Remarks on the Ancient Evidence for Democratic (2001) (0)
The history of nuclear fear (1993) (0)
Study of preservation of documents at Department of Energy national laboratories. Progress report, June 1, 1979-August 31, 1979 (1979) (0)
5. THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS (2012) (0)
18. ENERGY CHOICES (2012) (0)
A PERSONAL NOTE (2012) (0)
Pictures of climate change (2016) (0)
2. RADIOACTIVE FEARS (2012) (0)
10. THE NEW BLASPHEMY (2012) (0)
Photoelectroc Eclipse Observations of Continuum and Coronal Line Emission at the Solar Limb (1968) (0)
Chapter seven. BREAKING INTO POLITICS (2008) (0)
4. THE SECRET, THE MASTER, AND THE MONSTER (2012) (0)
25. ARTISTIC TRANSMUTATIONS (2012) (0)
Chapter six. THE ERRATIC BEAST (2008) (0)
Keeping History Alive: The AIP Center for History of Physics (1978) (0)
3. RADIUM: ELIXIR OR POISON? (2012) (0)
The truth about Rowland (1984) (0)
Book Review: Aspects of Geophysical Research, Past, Present and Future Trends in Geophysical Research (1990) (0)
24. THE MODERN ARCANUM (2012) (0)
16. REACTOR PROMISES AND POISONS (2012) (0)
Round-the-Clock Photoheliography (1969) (0)
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy (2015) (0)
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (2016) (0)
A Brief History Lesson in Deep Ice Core Drilling (2005) (0)
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (2017) (0)
CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE | History of Scientific Work on Climate Change (2015) (0)
8. ATOMS FOR PEACE (2012) (0)
Nuclear Technology, Global Warming, and the Politicization of Science (2016) (0)
Study of preservation of documents at Department of Energy laboratories. Final report (1982) (0)
Further Comment on “What Is the Atmosphere's Effect on Earth's Surface Temperature?” (2010) (0)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William A. Fowler received the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics. (1984) (0)
Chapter four. A VISIBLE THREAT (2008) (0)
Scientists in Power: France and the Origins of Nuclear Energy, 1900–1950 (1979) (0)
Chapter three. A DELICATE SYSTEM (2008) (0)
21. THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE (2012) (0)
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE SOLAR PHYSICS DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2021) (0)
15. FAIL/SAFE (2012) (0)
Chapter eight. SPEAKING SCIENCE TO POWER (2008) (0)
17. THE DEBATE EXPLODES (2012) (0)
Chapter one. HOW COULD CLIMATE CHANGE (2008) (0)
Aid for Teachers from the AIP Center for History of Physics. (1987) (0)
23. TYRANTS AND TERRORISTS (2012) (0)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2010) (0)
13. THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL (2012) (0)
6. THE NEWS FROM HIROSHIMA (2012) (0)
19. CIVILIZATION OR LIBERATION (2012) (0)
SOLAR PHYSICS AND THE CLIMATE PROBLEM (2021) (0)
Creation of the Universe: A Modest Proposal: Hopkins Observatory Williams College Williamstown, Mass. 01267, To: Universal Creation Foundation Request for Supplement to U.C.F. Grant #000-00-00000-001 “Creation of the Universe” (1974) (0)
11. DEATH DUST (2012) (0)
How to build a sun (1970) (0)
Hiroshima, revolution & physics (1982) (0)
9. GOOD AND BAD ATOMS (2012) (0)
The emergence of magnetic flux. (1971) (0)
14. SEEKING SHELTER (2012) (0)
Preserving the Heritage of Discovery (2002) (0)
Chapter five. PUBLIC WARNINGS (2008) (0)
22. DECONSTRUCTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS (2012) (0)
Chapter nine. THE WORK COMPLETED...AND BEGUN (2008) (0)
7. NATIONAL DEFENSES (2012) (0)

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