A pioneering life in the clouds: Book review of James Rodger Fleming: First woman: Joanne Simpson and the tropical atmosphere. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 224 pp, £25.00 HB

Alessandro Antonello

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Abstract

James Rodger Fleming is the leading historian of modern meteorology and the climate sciences, with his many major works having forged and advanced the field. To his already important works, which cover some of the major figures of twentieth-century meteorology—including Guy Stewart Callendar, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Harry Wexler, and others—and issues like weather modification, he now adds this highly readable and informative biography of a pioneer of tropical meteorology and a pioneering woman in science: the American meteorologist Joanne Simpson, the first American woman to obtain a Ph.D. in meteorology and someone who made fundamental contributions to the science.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)215-217
Number of pages2
JournalMetascience: An International Review Journal For The History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Volume30
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021

Keywords

  • book review
  • Joanne Simpson
  • meteorology
  • climate scientists
  • Women in science
  • tropical meteorology
  • pioneer women

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