William Glen (geologist and historian)

William Glen is a geologist and historian of science. He is the former Editor-at-Large at Stanford University Press, and a Visiting Scientist/Historian at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.

elected bibliography

Books

*William Glen, 1970, "Exercises in Physical Geology", W.C. Brown Publishing Co.,l54 pp.
*William Glen, 1975, "Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics" Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio, 188pp.
*William Glen, 1985, "Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics". Second Edition, Published by Geo-Resources Associates, San Mateo, Ca, 200pp.
*William Glen, 1982, "The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science" Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca.459
*William Glen (ed.) 1994, "The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis" Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca.

Monographs

*Willliam Glen, 1959, Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene of the Western Part of the San Francisco Peninsula., University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences, University of California Press, 36, 2: l47-l98, plates 15-17, 5 text figs.

Awards, grant, honors

*National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellow, Harvard University (1962-63)
*National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1963).
*National Science Foundation Research Fellow, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 1967.
*British Petroleum Ltd., book award ($2,500) for The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science, l983.
*National Science Foundation Research Grant ($40,000, l985-86)
*National Science Foundation Research Grant ($25,000,1986-88)
*National Science Foundation Research Grant ($40,000, 1989-92)
*The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science, l982, Stanford University Press was named as one of the forty-two “Great Books of Geology” in a survey of 900 departments of geology in North America (Journal of Geological Education,1993, v. 41, p. 261).
*National Science Foundation Research Grant ($60,000, 1993-96).
*Fellow, California Institute of International Studies, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California 94305-6010. (Elected to Fellowship in 1995).
*Inaugural Markey Trust lecturer, Center for History of Recent Science at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1996.
*The Wilbert Lecture (endowed by the Wilbert Foundation)on the History of the Mass Extinction Debates and a Comparison with the Plate Tectonics Upheaval, Nov 21, 1991, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.