Bill GreenBoltzmann's Tomb
Travels in Search of Science
Bill Green is a geochemist and professor emeritus at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also the author of Boltzmann?s Tomb: Travels in Search of Science and Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes, which received the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book, was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and was excerpted in The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic, edited by Elizabeth Kolbert. Green first traveled to Antarctica in 1968 and began conducting research there in 1980. To date he has been there nine times and has published many articles on the biogeochemical processes in the pristine lakes and meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Boltzmann?s Tomb: Travels In Search Of Science
"A man?s work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover through the
detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence
his heart first opened"? Albert Camus
"Randomness rules our lives"? Leonard Mlodinow
1. McMurdo Station
2. Lafayette and Duino
3. Blacksburg and Dallas
4. L,A. and Prague
5. Florence
6. London
7. Bern
8. Pittsburgh and Paris
9. Juneau
10. Titusville and Tucson
11. Vienna
12. Cambridge
13. Munich and Bremen
14. Oxford, Ohio
