John A. Pyle

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John Adrian Pyle (born April 4, 1951 ) is a British chemist and atmospheric researcher .

Life

Pyle graduated from Durham University with a bachelor's degree in physics and received his PhD from Oxford University in 1978 (Dissertation: Some problems in the numerical modeling of the atmosphere ). He was then briefly at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory before becoming a lecturer at Cambridge in 1985 . He has been Professor at Cambridge University since 2000 ( 1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry ) and Director of the Center for Atmospheric Science in Cambridge. He is a professorial fellow at St. Catharine's College.

He is known for research on the chemistry of the atmosphere and its influence on the climate, for example using numerical models. Among other things, he researched the decrease in ozone in the stratosphere (already the subject of his dissertation) and the change in the ability of the troposphere to oxidize . He examined the likely changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere in the 21st century (including a warning of an increase in ozone on the ground) and the environmental impact of aircraft, biofuels and the hydrogen economy. He also studied paleochemical issues.

In the 1990s he played an important role in the development of EU research programs on the stratosphere and coordinated field studies. Pyle has contributed to all WMO / UNEP reports on stratospheric ozone since the 1980s and is a senior scientist on their Scientific Assessment Panel. Pyle is lead author of the IPCC Special Report Safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system from 2006.

In 2017 he became CBE and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004). In 2018 he received the Davy Medal and in 2004 the Adrian Gill Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society . In 2011 he became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 1993 a member of the Academia Europaea .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth Who's Who UK, 2018
  2. ↑ Career data after entry in Gerald North u. a. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Pyle, John A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pyle, John Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1951