Erik M. Conway (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.[1] He is the author of several books. He previously completed a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1998, with a dissertation on the development of aircraft landing aids.

In High-Speed Dreams (2005), Conway argues that U.S. government sponsorship of supersonic commercial transportation systems resulted from Cold War concerns about a loss of technological prowess in the modern world.[2][3] Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006) consists of eleven essays on individuals prepared in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight.[4] Conway also wrote Blind Landings (2007) and he is a co-author of a secondary-level education text entitled Science and Exploration (2007). Atmospheric Science at NASA was published in 2008.[5]

His 2010 book Merchants of Doubt was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes,[6] as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.[7]

Bibliography

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• High-Speed Dreams (2005)
• Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006)
• Blind Landings (2007)
• Science and Exploration (2007)
• Atmospheric Science at NASA (2008)
• Merchants of Doubt (co-authored with Naomi Oreskes; 2010)
• "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future" Daedalus (Winter 2013)
• Oreskes, Naomi & Erik M. Conway (September 2020). "The information manipulators : by moving matter and energy, innovators have democratized information". Scientific American. 323 (3): 40–46.[8]

Notes and references

External links

• Erik M. Conway personal website
• What's in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change

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