James R. Fleming is a historian of science and technology, professor of STS at Colby College, and founder and first President of the International Commission on History of Meteorology. His books include Meteorology in America, 1800-1870 (Johns Hopkins, 1990), Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford, 1998), and a new work in progress called The Callendar Effect, the life and times of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the British scientist who revived the carbon dioxide theory of climate change.

Professor Fleming is a graduate of Penn State University (B.S. in astronomy), Colorado State University (M.S. in atmospheric science) and Princeton University (Ph.D. in history). He was elected a Fellow of the AAAS,"for pioneering studies on the history of meteorology and climate change," and was awarded NEH, NSF, Scripps, and Smithsonian fellowships. Next year he will hold the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution where he promises to bring "a history of air" to the National Air and Space Museum.

His complete vita is available online at James R. Fleming

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