Original paper
Paradigm development in times of political tension 1920–1970
Obermeyer, Hennes
Global Tectonics and Metallogeny Volume 10 Number 2-4 (2018), p. 121 - 125
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published: May 1, 2018
manuscript accepted: Dec 15, 2017
manuscript revision received: Oct 22, 2017
manuscript revision requested: Aug 2, 2017
manuscript received: Jun 26, 2017
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Abstract
With 3 figures Abstract: The scientific, economic and technological isolation of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century contributed significantly to the fact that geology in Germany lost its connection in scientific competition. The inability to professorial self-criticism, combined with a dogmatic methodology where field data are subordinated to the global theories undermine all approaches for scientific self-healing. The person Hans Stille is a typical and tragic protagonist of this time.
Keywords
history of sciences • plate tectonics • obsolete model • failure of scientic self-criticism