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The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet
In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months...
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In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earth's greatest mysteries--and changed science forever.
The International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957 marked humanity's first unified effort to understand our planet, launching the space race, discovering the Van Allen radiation belts, and producing groundbreaking climate research that shapes our world today. Through exclusive interviews with modern climate leaders--including the late marine biologist and climate researcher Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, science diplomat and Senior Fellow at United Nations Institute for Training and Research Paul Arthur Berkman, Frank Niepold at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), science historian Rebecca Charbonneau, and many more--author Mark O'Connell reveals how this historic collaboration offers a blueprint for tackling today's environmental challenges.
Key discoveries from this groundbreaking initiative:
- Sparked the space race and satellite technology development
- Led to the first comprehensive mapping of ocean floors
- Produced the Antarctic Treaty, protecting an entire continent
- Established the foundation for modern climate science
- Created a model for international scientific cooperation
As climate change threatens our planet, The Year Science Changed Everything shows how the spirit of global scientific unity that transformed 1957 might be our best hope for safeguarding Earth's future.
Author: Mark O'Connell
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781493084906
About the Author
Mark O'Connell is an author, screenwriter, feature television commentator, and university lecturer. He got his start in television, writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. O'Connell was Co-Executive Producer and on-camera expert on the reality show UFO Witness, a recurring guest on the TV show Fright Club, and Co-Producer of a Discovery+ documentary about best-selling author Whitley Strieber. O'Connell is the author of The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOS, a biography of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the famed astrophysicist, science educator, and UFO researcher and inspiration behind Steven Spielberg's epic film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Currently, O'Connell is a featured commentator discussing the science and history of UFOs in UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, a documentary mini-series for the National Geographic Channel, now streaming on Hulu, and soon on VICE and Disney +. He is also on the screenwriting faculty of the College of Computing & Digital Media at DePaul University.
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