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Summary: Materials on the IGY.IGY note
The International Polar Year
Albert
Science 5 March 2004: 1437
DOI: 10.1126/science.303.5663.1437
From: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/sci;303/5663/1437.pdf
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Number 1
Pages 179-182
| DOI | 10.1070/PU1959v002n01ABEH003115 |
| Citation | A Kh Krigyan, "FIFTH ASSEMBLY OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR AND MODERN PROBLEMS OF GEOPHYSICS", SOV PHYS USPEKHI, 1959, 2 (1), 179-182. |
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From: http://www.turpion.org/php/paper.phtml?journal_id=pu&paper_id=3115
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Science Communication, Vol. 26, No. 2,
162-187 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1075547004270076
© 2004 SAGE Publications
Fae L. Korsmo
DOI: 10.1177/1075547004270076
© 2004 SAGE Publications
Shaping Up Planet Earth
The International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) and Communicating Science Through Print and Film Media
National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences played a major role in preparing for the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The IGY organizers realized the importance of selling U.S. participation in international science and thus began a public relations effort by the mid-1950s that included the production of classroom materials and a film series, called Planet Earth, designed for television. This is the story of their efforts to bring the earth, atmospheric, and oceanic sciences into the classrooms and living rooms of the lay public and attract more students into scientific careers. The lessons they learned still apply today as researchers attempt to sell their science using new media and technologies.
Key Words: educational film • science education • science communication • cold war science • public understanding of science • International Geophysical Year • educational • television • public television
From: http://scx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/2/162
Link: International Geophysical Year
Summary: Earth System Research Laboratory IGY History
Link: Odish: The Meaning of the International Geophysical Year
Summary: Source: Hugh Odish:, Executive Director, US National Committee for IGY, "The Meaning of the International Geophysical Year," 4 December 1959, U.S. President¹s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee) Records, 1959-1961, Box 6, A83-10, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.
Link: Korolev, Sputnik, and The International Geophysical Year
Summary: Korolev, Sputnik, and The International Geophysical Year
Asif A. Siddiqi
From the point of historical inquiry, the institutional and political machinations behind the genesis of Sputnik have remained a largely ignored area of scholarship. Embellished by speculation and fueled by Soviet secrecy, the story behind Sputnik has assumed the form of a parable, cobbled together from rumors and mythology, and colored by an eagerness to fill in the blanks of what we did not know. Thus, while the post-mortem effects of Sputnik have been the subject of much scholarly debate, the origins and motivations that led to the launch of the first artificial satellite have remained, to a large degree, in the realm of conjecture. In recent years, with the dissolution of the Soviet state in 1991, mythology came into confrontation with reality. Declassified primary documents have provided a rich resource and incentive to look back again at an event which had such a profound impact on the course of events in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Geophysics and the IGY
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Geophysics and the IGY |
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Odishaw, Hugh ; Ruttenberg, Stanley |
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Geophysics and the IGY: Proceedings of the Symposium at the Opening of the International Geophysical Year. Conducted from June 28-29, 1957, by the U. S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year and the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. Edited by Hugh Odishaw and Stanley Ruttenberg. Geophysical Monograph Series; Waldo E. Smith, Managing Editor. Published by the American Geophysical Union of the National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council Publication No. 590, 1958. |
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From: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958gigy.conf.....O
Link: International Geophysical Year 50th Anniversary Observance
Summary: The International Geophysical Year (1957-58) was conceived as an attempt to coordinate globe-wide measurements of the Earth, the oceans, the atmosphere, and the Sun. Such a large undertaking required and successfully acheived international cooperation in a time of increasing geopolitical tension. The extraordinary accomplishments of the IGY are legion:
* The discovery of the Van Allen belts that ring the earth.
* The launching of the first artifical satellite (Sputnik).
* The charting of ocean depths and ocean currents.
* A detailed study of the Earth's magnetic field that soon lead to the revolutionary plate tectonics theory.
* Measurements of upper atmospheric winds
* The first concerted study of the Antarctic continent and ice sheets.
* Finally, the Antarctic Treaty, that made the continent a place of scientific research, free of national claims and inter-national strife.
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From: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/~sak/IGY/bedsrc.jpgInternational Geophysical Year in Antarctica
Link: IGY (and later) research in Antarctica
Summary: These images show the traverse paths of the International Geophysical Year research in Antarctica (IGY, 1957 to 1959). The links for the individual traverses give more detailed information on the dates and organization that conducted the work.
Link: Finding Aid to the Papers of Sydney Chapman, 1860-1972
Summary: Includes quite a bit of information on the IGY.
IGY: Great achievements and minor obstacles (Nicolet)
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The International Geophysical Year (1957–1958): Great achievements and minor obstacles
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From: http://www.springerlink.com/content/lr07l88271471310/
