James Rodger Fleming New Member

History of Science with a human touch

Nonfiction

James Rodger Fleming (Ph.D. Princeton University; Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and Society at Colby College), writes on the history of weather, climate, and human affairs. His books include Meteorology in America (Johns Hopkins, 1990), Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998), The Callendar Effect (AMS, 2007); Fixing the Sky (Columbia, 2010), Inventing Atmospheric Science (MIT, 2016), and First Woman: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (Oxford, 2020). Meteorologist Joanne Simpson faced a tortuous path to the top in a male-dominated field and engaged in a romantic affair with her Woods Hole photographer, Claude Ronne, that lasted for decades.

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Centre Hall, PA

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