Brian P. Flannery
Brian Paul Flannery (* 1948 in Utica , New York ) is an American physicist.
Flannery graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in astrophysics in 1970 and received a PhD in astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1974 . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1974 to 1976 . In 1976 he became Assistant Professor and 1980 Associate Professor at Harvard University . From 1980 he was with Exxon Research. There he headed the Transport Processes and Applied Mathematics groups, headed the Global Climate Change section from 1990 to 1993 and was manager of Exxon Mobile from 1998 to 2011, initially in the Safety, Health and Environment department and from 2009 in the Environmental Policy and Planning department.
In 1978 he was visiting scholar at Cambridge University and again at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1980 to 1985.
As an astrophysicist, he dealt with close binary star systems. In materials science he developed a system for three-dimensional X-ray micro-tomography with synchrotron radiation . He is co-author of the standard work Numerical Recipes . His research focused on global climate change and the creation of numerical models for the energy balance including paleoclimatology and climate change due to changing concentrations of greenhouse gases. He developed projects on climate change at MIT and Stanford University.
From 1988 to 2007 he was an observer for the industry (Exxon) in the IPCC and from 1998 to 2004 the main author in the working group (WG) 3 (Accessment Report 3,4).
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- ↑ Dates of birth according to the IAS membership book
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flannery, Brian P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flannery, Brian Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utica (New York) |