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Piel, Gerard was born on March 1, 1915 in Woodmere, Long Island, New York, United States. Son of William F.J. and Loretto (Scott) Piel.
(Gerard Piel brings to the monumental issues addressed in ...)
Gerard Piel brings to the monumental issues addressed in Only One World the knowledge and understanding accumulated in his four decades as publisher of Scientific America?. Under his leadership, the magazine has distinguished itself not only by bringing the achievements of science to the wider audience, but also by monitoring the industrial revolution, the effects of human activity on the environment, the arms race and arms control, population growth, and economic development. In nine languages and 10 editions, Scientific American has a worldwide circulation of more than one million readers. The June 1992 United Nations Earth Summit will focus on the tremendous human and environmental devastation caused by the gap that divides the world's rich and poor nations. Written in anticipation of that conference, "Only One World" is Gerards Piel's vision of how to heal this division - how to make this only world "One World", and 'keep' it so. It is an urgent message about the survival of the planet. In "only One world ", Piel describes how the current disparity between industrialised and pre-industrial nations developed over the course of history. He then shows how the acceleration of economic development in poor nations can reduce the costs of poverty to the environment - and how rich and poor nations alike can adapt their appetites and their technologies to sustain and develop the planetary ecosystem.
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(When historians of the future come to examine western civ...)
When historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the 20th century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out above all others: more than any other era before it, the 20th century was an age of science. Not only were the practical details of daily life radically transformed by the application of scientific discoveries, but our very sense of who we are, how our mind works, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking as never before in human history. In "The Scientific Era", Gerard Piel, the founding editor and publisher of "Scientific American" gives us a sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the 20th century, with chapters on the fundamental forces of nature, the subatomic world, cosmology, the cell and molecular biology, earth history and the evolution of life, and human evolution. Beautifully written and illustrated, this is a book for the connoisseur: an elegant, informative, magisterial summation of one of the 20th century's greatest cultural achievements.
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(When historians of the future come to examine western civ...)
When historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the twentieth century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out above all others; more than any other era before it, the twentieth century was an age of science. Not only were the practical details of daily life radically transformed by the application of scientific discoveries, but our very sense of who we are, how our minds work, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking as never before in human history. In The Age of Science, the former editor and publisher of Scientific American gives us a sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century, with chaers on the fundamental forces of nature, the subatomic world, cosmology, the cell and molecular biology, earth history and the evolution of life, and human evolution. Beautifully written and illustrated, this is a book for the connoisseur; an elegant, informative, magisterial summation of one of the twentieth century's greatest cultural achievements.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/145960900X/?tag=2022091-20
(Gerard Piel brings to the monumental issues addressed in ...)
Gerard Piel brings to the monumental issues addressed in Only One World the knowledge and understanding accumulated in his four decades as publisher of Scientific America?. Under his leadership, the magazine has distinguished itself not only by bringing the achievements of science to the wider audience, but also by monitoring the industrial revolution, the effects of human activity on the environment, the arms race and arms control, population growth, and economic development. In nine languages and 10 editions, Scientific American has a worldwide circulation of more than one million readers. The June 1992 United Nations Earth Summit will focus on the tremendous human and environmental devastation caused by the gap that divides the world's rich and poor nations. Written in anticipation of that conference, "Only One World" is Gerards Piel's vision of how to heal this division - how to make this only world "One World", and 'keep' it so. It is an urgent message about the survival of the planet. In "only One world ", Piel describes how the current disparity between industrialised and pre-industrial nations developed over the course of history. He then shows how the acceleration of economic development in poor nations can reduce the costs of poverty to the environment - and how rich and poor nations alike can adapt their appetites and their technologies to sustain and develop the planetary ecosystem.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0716723166/?tag=2022091-20
Piel, Gerard was born on March 1, 1915 in Woodmere, Long Island, New York, United States. Son of William F.J. and Loretto (Scott) Piel.
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1937. Doctor of Science, Lawrence College, 1956. Doctor of Science, Colby College, 1960.
University British Columbia, Brandeis University, 1965. University British Columbia, Lebanon Valley College, 1977. University British Columbia, Long Island University, 1978.
University British Columbia, Bard College, 1979. University British Columbia, City University of New York, 1979. University British Columbia, University Missouri, 1985.
University British Columbia, Blackburn College, 1985. Doctor of Letters, Rutgers University, 1961. Doctor of Letters, Bates College, 1974.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia, 1962. Doctor of Humane Letters, Williams College, 1966. Doctor of Humane Letters, Rush University, 1979.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Hahnemann Medical College, 1981. Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount Sinai Medical School, 1985. Doctor of Laws, Tuskegee Institute, 1963.
Doctor of Laws, University Bridgeport, 1964. Doctor of Laws, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1965. Doctor of Laws, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1968.
Doctor of Laws, Lowell University, 1986. Doctor (honoris causa), Moscow State University, 1985.
Assistant to President, Henry J. Kaiser Company and associated enterprises 1945-1946. Organizer, President Scientific American Inc., Publisher Scientific American 1947-1984, Chair of Board 1984-1987, Chairman Emeritus since 1988. Chairman Commission Delivery Personal Health Services, New York 196668, Trustees, Foundation for Child Development.
President 1985, Chairman 1986). George Polk.
(When historians of the future come to examine western civ...)
(When historians of the future come to examine western civ...)
(Gerard Piel brings to the monumental issues addressed in ...)
(Gerard Piel brings to the monumental issues addressed in ...)
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Translated edits.: Le Scienze, 1968, Saiensu, 1971, Investigacion y Ciencia, 1976, Pour la Science, 1977, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 1978, KeXue, 1979, V Mire Nauki, 1983, Tudomany, 1985, Majallat Al Oloom, 1986. Author: Science in the Cause of Man, 1961, The Acceleration of History, 1972, Only One World, 1992, Erde im Gleichgewicht, 1994, What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century, 2001.
Chairman Commission Delivery Personal Health Services City New York, 1967-1968. Trustee emeritus New York Botanical Garden, René Dubos Center. Trustee emeritus American Museum National History, Radcliffe College, Phillips Academy, Mayo Clinic, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Foundation for Child Development.
Public member American Board Medical Specialities. Board overseers Harvard University, 1966-1968, 73-79. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (president 1985, chairman 1986).
Member Council Foreign Relations, American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences Institute Medicine, Harvard Club, Century Club, Metropolitan Opera Club, Cosmos Club, Somerset Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Mary Tapp Bird, February 4, 1938. Children: Jonathan Bird, Samuel Bird (deceased). Married Eleanor Virden Jackson, June 24, 1955.
Child, Eleanor Jackson.