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| James
R. Fleming
James R. Fleming
Colby College
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James Fleming is
Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Colby College,
Maine. He currently holds the Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global
Environmental Stewardship from the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is in residence at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he is
working on his twelfth book: The chequered history of weather
and climate control. Professor Fleming earned a B.S. in
astronomy from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in atmospheric
science from Colorado State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D.
in history from Princeton University. A long-term friend of
the Smithsonian Institution, in 2005-06 he held the Charles
A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air
and Space Museum and in 1985-87 was a pre-doctoral fellow with
the Joseph Henry Papers. He is interested in the history of
science, technology, and public opinion surrounding polar weather
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