Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-45-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-45-2019
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16 Apr 2019
Review article |  | 16 Apr 2019

IUGG evolves (1940–2000)

Jo Ann Joselyn and Alik Ismail-Zadeh

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This paper describes the history of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) after World War II. The technologies developed during the war were brought to bear in the extraordinary global scientific effort that was the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958). Changes in the geopolitical landscape brought about changes in IUGG's structure. International campaigns encompassing multiple disciplines became commonplace, and international scientific bodies were organized.