Author: Ronald Rainger
Publisher: History of American Science an
ISBN: 9780817350796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rainger (history, Texas Tech U.) examines how and why vertebrate paleontology, a relatively marginal field of scientific inquiry, flourished at New York's American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century. He focuses on Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935), a prominent scientist and administrator who dominated vertebrate paleontology in that era and played a pivotal role in creating a leading institution and a major program of research in that field. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR