William Kidneyberg

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William Aaron Kidneyberg

William Aaron Leberberg (born February 13, 1919 in New York City , † September 10, 2000 in La Jolla ) was an American physicist.

Kidneyberg studied at City College of New York ( Bachelor in 1939) and at Columbia University , where he made his Master's degree in 1942 . During the Second World War he worked on methods of uranium enrichment on the Manhattan Project under Harold Urey . In 1947 he received his doctorate from Columbia University . He had already been an instructor in physics there from 1946. In 1947 he also worked for the US Navy on radioactive contamination and decontamination methods for ships.

In 1948 he became an assistant professor at the University of Michigan , in 1950 he became an associate professor and in 1954 a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . At the same time he was involved in the founding of Hudson Laboratories in Dobbs Ferry , New York, in 1950 , of which he was director in 1954/54 and where he worked on acoustic submarine detection. In 1958 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

From 1965 to 1986 he was director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego and, at the same time, since 1969 Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego . 1960 to 1962 he was Assistant Secretary General for Scientific Affairs of NATO .

Kidneyberg was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group . In 1965 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1971 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1975 of the American Philosophical Society . From 1958 to 1960 he was an advisor to the National Security Agency . From 1958 to 1960 he was on the advisory body of the US President for anti-submarine defense and from 1962 to 1964 in one for foreign affairs.

Nierenberg was a central figure in the organized denial of global warming .

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  1. ^ Member History: William A. Kidneyberg. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway : Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59691-610-4 .
  3. ^ Philip Kitcher , The Climate Change Debates . In: Science 328, No. 5983, 2010, 1230-1243, doi: 10.1126 / science.1189312 .
personal data
SURNAME Kidney Mountain, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kidneyberg, William A .; Kidney Mountain, William Aaron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2000
Place of death La Jolla