The Carnegie Maya
The Carnegie Maya

Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13:

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Dispersed and out-of-print for fifty years, more than 350 reports from the Maya program are now available in this single volume. Reports from the institution's annual Year Books and other materials collected here tell the history of Maya research through firsthand accounts by participating scholars and reveal the progression of Mesoamerican

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The Department of Plant Biology
Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The Department of Plant Biology

Author: Allan Sandage

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521830812

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From humble beginnings as a small desert laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology has evolved into a thriving international center of plant molecular biology that sits today on the campus of Stanford University. This fourth in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution touches on the tangled beginnings of ecology, the baroque complexities of photosynthesis, the great mid-century evolutionary synthesis and the adventurous start of the plant molecular revolution.

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 3, The Geophysical Laboratory
Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 3, The Geophysical Laboratory

Author: Hatten S. Yoder

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521830805

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For over a century, the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington has witnessed exciting discoveries and ingenious research, made possible by the scientific freedom granted to members of the department. For the most part, this research has involved laboratory experimentation on the physics and chemistry of rock-forming minerals at high temperature and pressure. This third volume in a series of five histories of the Carnegie Institution documents the contribution made by the members of the Geophysical Laboratory to our understanding of the Earth, from mineral formation deep below the surface, to the search for the origins of life, and out into space to study the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium. Field work has taken researchers from active volcanoes to ships collecting ocean sediments, and geological mapping expeditions around the world. Contemporary photographs throughout illustrate the evolution of the department and its research.