William Glen (March 14, 1932 – August 13, 2025) was an American geologist and historian of science. He was editor-at-large at the Stanford University Press, a visiting scientist/historian at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, a visiting scholar at Stanford University in California, and a professor at the College of San Mateo. Glen died on August 13, 2025, at the age of 93.
Selected bibliography William Glen, 1970, Exercises in Physical Geology, W.C. Brown Publishing Co., 154 pp. William Glen, 1975, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio, 188 pp. ISBN 0675087996 William Glen, 1985, Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Second Edition, Published by Geo-Resources Associates, San Mateo, Ca., 200 pp. ISBN 0675087996 William Glen, 1982, The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 459 pp. ISBN 0804711194 William Glen (ed.) 1994, The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 371 pp. ISBN 0804722854 William Glen, 1959 Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene of the Western Part of the San Francisco Peninsula, University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences, University of California Press, 36, 2: 147-198, plates 15-17, 5 text figs., 1959.
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Notes Learning Stewards Interview: (See "learningstewards" channel on YouTube). Dr. Glen discusses his life's work as a historian of science.
