By Roger D. Launius
The overseas Polar Years (IPY) and the foreign Geophysical yr (IGY) represented a amazing foreign collaborative clinical attempt that was once serious about, yet no longer constrained to, knowing the poles. those efforts validated the consistency of medical objectives and strategies throughout political limitations. even as, they elevated either wisdom and overseas tensions. This number of essays explores a few of the medical expeditions of the IPYs and the IGY, bringing jointly contributions from quite a few experts. they provide overviews of the clinical growth accomplished in each one case, in addition to the political, financial, and armed forces elements that prompted those undertakings. jointly, they supply new insights into the professionalization of clinical disciplines, nationwide types of clinical research and collaboration, medical patronage, and the emergence of the worldwide geosciences. .
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For example, the 1873 congress in Vienna, which ultimately attracted representatives from 20 nations, was unable to adopt the metric system as the standard because of opposition by the English delegate. 18 Another problem facing meteorologists was that they were often government-supported by large investments in their national meteorological programs. Collaboration might mean acknowledging that another country’s system was superior. In 1845 an international meeting of scientists interested in terrestrial magnetism and meteorology was held in conjunction with the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
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