Richard P. Turco

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Richard "Rich" Peter Turco (born March 9, 1943 in New York City ) is an American climate scientist.

Turco studied electrical engineering at Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's degree in 1967 and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1971. He then worked for R&D Associates as a scientist in atmospheric engineering until 1988. Research. In 1988 he became a professor in the Atmospheric Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1997 to 2004 he was director of UCLA's Institute for Environment.

He did research on photochemistry of ozone and the ozone hole, chemistry and microphysics of aerosols, air pollution in cities, global climate change and the effect of dust clouds on meteorite impacts (which also led to research on nuclear winters with Carl Sagan ).

In 1985 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award . In 1986 he was a MacArthur Fellow . In 1983 and 1988 he received the H. Julian Allen Award from NASA . He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

From 1981 to 1991 he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research . From 1992 to 1994 he headed the Atmospheric Science department at AGU.

Fonts

  • with Carl Sagan : A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race, Random House 1990
  • Earth under Siege: From Air Pollution to Global Change, Oxford UP 2002

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data up to 2004 according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Turco, Richard P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turco, Richard Peter; Turco, Rich (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City