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Naomi Oreskes (Ph.D., Stanford, 1990) is a Professor
in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Having started
her professional career as a field geologist, her research now focuses
on the historical development of scientific knowledge, methods,
and practices in the earth and environmental sciences. A 1994 recipient
of the NSF Young Investigator Award, she has served as a consultant
to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Nuclear
Waste Technical Review Board on the use and evaluation of computer
models, and has taught at Stanford, Dartmouth, Harvard and NYU.
Professor Oreskes’s most recent book is Plate Tectonics: An
Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (with
Homer Le Grand, Westview Press, 2001), which was cited by Library
Journal as one of the best science and technology books of 2002,
and by Choice as an outstanding academic title of 2003. Other publications
include The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in
American Earth Science (Oxford University Press, 1999), “Verification,
validation, and confirmation of numerical models in the earth sciences”
(Science 263: 641-646, 1994), and “Objectivity or Heroism:
On the Invisibility of Women in Science” (Osiris 11: 87-133,
1996). She is currently completing “Science on a Mission:
American Oceanography in the Cold War and Beyond,” to be published
by the University of Chicago Press.
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