Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes

• Birth:    November 25, 1958
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American
• Education: Imperial College, University of London, Stanford University
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• Books Written
• Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010)
• The Collapse of Western Civilization (Columbia University Press, 2014),
• Discerning Experts (University Chicago Press, 2019)
• Why Trust Science? (Princeton University Press, 2019)
• Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change, (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
• Biography

She became Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2013, after 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has worked on studies of geophysics, environmental issues such as global warming, and the history of science. In 2010, Oreskes co-authored Merchants of Doubt which identified some parallels between the climate change debate and earlier public controversies From Wikipedia

She is a historian of science. Also is a geologist.