Virabhadran Ramanathan ( born Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan ; born November 24, 1944 , Madurai , India ) is an American climate scientist of Indian descent, a pioneer in the field of climate change research. Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2002) [1] and the American Philosophical Society (2006), as well as the Papal Academy of Sciences (2004) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Doctor of Philosophy (1974), Emeritus Professor of , where he has been working since 1990. In 1975, it revealed the extra-greenhouse effect exerted by chlorofluorocarbons . In 1997, discovered Asian brown clouds . Nowadays, he also conducts extensive public activities related to counteracting global warming .
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Biography
By nationality, Hindu. He graduated from (Bachelor of Engineering, 1965). In 1970, he received a master's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and emigrated to the United States the same year. In 1974, he received a Ph.D. in planetary atmospheres from the University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1974-1976 he was a postdoc from NASA. In 1976-1982 he was a research fellow, in 1982-1986 he was a senior fellow at the . In 1986-1990, he was a professor at the University of Chicago. Since 1990, professor at the University of California, San Diego . In 2010, he founded Project Surya in India [2] . Among its co-authors are . In 2012, he first met with the Dalai Lama XIV [3] .
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences and TWAS.
Awards and honors
- (1995)
- Volvo Environment Prize (1997)
- (2002)
- Tyler Award (2009)
- (2013) [2]
- Entered the List of the Top 100 world thinkers according to the journal Foreign Policy (2014) [4]
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015) [5]
- Revelle Medal (2016)
- Villanova University Mendel Medal (2018) [6]
- Tang Award (2018, with James Hansen ) [7]
Notes
- ↑ Veerabhadran Ramanathan - National Academy of Sciences
- ↑ 1 2 Pioneering Black Carbon Researcher Receives UN 'Champion of the Earth'
- ↑ UC San Diego's Connections with the Dalai Lama Run Deep
- ↑ Scripps Climate Researcher Among 100 Foreign Policy Global Thinkers of 2014
- ↑ Scripps Climate Scientist Recognized for Pioneering Work by Spanish Foundation
- ↑ Villanova University Awards 2018 Mendel Medal to Veerabhadran Ramanathan
- ↑ Ramanathan Shares $ 1.33 Million Sustainable Development Prize with Fellow Climate Science Pioneer
Links
- CV
- Veerabhadran Ramanathan: Humanitarian science for a global cause (2014)
- New Climate Risk Classification Created to Account for Potential “Existential” Threats (Sep 14, 2017)
- Still Time to Act: Impending Weather and Health Disasters from Climate Change Could Spur Progress in Cutting Emissions (Aug 06, 2018)