Robert H. Socolow

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Harry Socolow (born December 27, 1937 in New York City ) is an American physicist and engineer. He deals with environmental and energy policy.

Robert Socolow studied physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1959, a master's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in theoretical high-energy physics in 1964. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley and at CERN . In 1970 he was a Junior Faculty Fellowship at Princeton University and in 1971 at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1966 he became assistant professor of physics at Yale, 1971 associate professor at Princeton University in the aerospace engineering and mechanics department and 1977 professor. From 1978 to 1998 he was director of the Center for Environmental Studies there . He retired in 2013.

With the ecologist Stephen Pacala he is a senior scientist of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative in Princeton, a 20-year research project (funded by BP and previously by Ford ) on the management of the global carbon budget and carbon dioxide sequestration.

In 2003 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award for his leadership role in establishing environmental and energy studies as a legitimate research area for physicists and for his evidence that these broad problems can be approached with the highest scientific standards (laudatory speech). He served on the committees of the National Academies America's Energy Future and America's Climate Choices and a member of the Grand Challenges for Engineering Committee of the National Academy of Engineering .

Socolow is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1976/77 he was on a Guggenheim fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge .

From 1992 to 2002 he was editor of the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment .

Fonts

  • with John Harte: Patient Earth , Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1972
  • Saving Energy in the Home: Princeton's Experiments at Twin Rivers, Harper Collins 1979
  • Editor with Others: Industrial Ecology and Global Change. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • with SW Pacala: Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies, Science, Volume 305, 2004, pp. 968-972
  • with M. Desmond, R. Alnes, J. Blackstock, O. Bolland, T. Kaarsberg, N. Lewis, M. Mazzotti, A. Pfeffer, K. Sawyer, J. Siirola, B. Smit, J. Wilcox: Direct Air capture of CO2 with chemicals: A technology assessment for the APS Panel on Public Affairs, American Physical Society 2011
  • Truths We Must Tell Ourselves to Manage Climate Change, Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 65, 2012, pp. 1455-1478
  • Climate Change and Destiny Studies: Creating Our Near and Far Futures, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 71, November 6, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data up to 2004 according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Socolow, Robert H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Socolow, Robert Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City