Alfred Wegener's Work in Paleoclimatology

阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳在古气候学方面的工作

• 批准号: 9729241
• 负责人: Mott Greene
• 金额: $ 2.69万
• 依托单位: University of Puget Sound
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 1999-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9729241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alfred; Wegener; Work; Paleoclimatology

This project will produce a scientific biography of Alfred Wegener, the German polar scientist and meteorologist best known as the originator of the theory of continental drift. The project will use Wegener's life and work to explain the evolution of earth sciences in the first half of the twentieth century. The project will endeavor to show that the theory of continental drift was not a renegade idea proposed by an outsider, as some might believe, but instead was a mainstream hypothesis proposed by a mainstream scientist and based on widely- used data sets. Further, the PI will show that the debate about `Wegener's theory` is best seen as a constructive, communal effort by earth scientists to find how best to organize a vast fund of empirical data. This is an idea Wegener himself would have endorsed, since he viewed science as a social enterprise evolving on a time scale much longer than an individual scientific career.

该项目将为德国极地科学家和气象学家阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳（Alfred Wegener）撰写科学传记，他因大陆漂移理论的鼻祖而闻名。 该项目将利用韦格纳的生活和工作来解释二十世纪上半叶地球科学的演变。 该项目将努力表明，大陆漂移理论并不是像某些人可能认为的那样由局外人提出的叛逆想法，而是由主流科学家提出并基于广泛使用的数据集的主流假设。 此外，PI 将表明，关于“韦格纳理论”的争论最好被视为地球科学家的建设性的共同努力，以找到如何最好地组织大量经验数据的方法。 韦格纳本人也会赞同这个想法，因为他认为科学是一项社会事业，其发展的时间尺度比个人科学生涯要长得多。