Joseph P. Bassi is assistant professor of arts and sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Worldwide Campus). He lives in San Diego and Lompoc, California.
"This is fundamentally a history of a 'city of knowledge, ' but not in the way that planned cities of the Cold War era emerged in such places as Los Alamos, New Mexico, or the 'Research Triangle' of North Carolina. . . . In the end, a combination of capital, leaders, skilled workers, and institutions--supported by sufficient capital investment largely from the federal government-- succeeded in establishing a 'mecca' of scientific investigation and output. . . . It is a story of progress, writ large. . . . A Scientific Peak makes an important contribution by laying out the creation of a climate science community. I welcome its publication."--Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution "Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly"
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