James Rodger Fleming
American historian
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James Rodger Fleming, is a historian of science and technology, and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus at Colby College, and author of the book Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control.[1][2]
Life and career
Fleming earned degrees from Pennsylvania State University (BS astronomy 1971), Colorado State University (MS atmospheric science, 1973), and Princeton University (PhD history, 1988). He was a professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Colby College for 33 years and retired in 2021. Fleming is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),[3] and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).[1] He is regarded as an expert for climate engineering, and critical of technological fixes to address global warming.[4]
Awards and honors
Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History[5] and the AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship during his time as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[1]
- Sally Hacker Prize[6]
Bibliography
Sourced per his homepage at Colby College.[7]
- Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990)[8]
- Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998)
- The Callendar Effect (AMS, 2007)
- Fixing the Sky (Columbia, 2010)
- Inventing Atmospheric Science (MIT, 2016)
- FIRST WOMAN: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (Oxford, 2020)