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Geological Magazine; July 2005; v. 142; no. 4; p. 457; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756805211159
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YODER, H. S., JR. 2005. Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Volume III: The Geophysical Laboratory.

xvi+270 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £60.00, US $80.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 83080 X.

Graham Chinner

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The buccaneering 19th Century steel baron Andrew Carnegie spent the last years of his life disbursing his huge fortune in support of education and scientific research – for his native Scotland as for his adopted United States. The Carnegie Institution of Washington, envisaged by its founder as a grant-giving body, rapidly developed into a corporation supporting research laboratories in widely differing scientific fields.

Founded with the broad intention of promoting quantitative methods of physics and chemistry in the solution of geological problems, the Geophysical Laboratory mainly owed its . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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