Susan Solomon

Susan Solomon (2004)

Susan Solomon (born January 19, 1956 in Chicago ) is an American atmospheric chemist . She worked for the United States Meteorological and Oceanography Agency from 1981 to 1996 and has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2012 , in Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Sciences until 2016, and Environmental Sciences since then . She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1999 for her work .

Life

Solomon received her bachelor's degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1977 and then received her PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 .

In 1986 and 1987, Solomon was head of the National Ozone Expedition research project at McMurdo Station in Antarctica . In the course of this research, she was one of the first to point out the connection between chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone hole . Their work was one of the foundations for the Montreal Protocol .

Because of her research, Solomon was appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . In 2007 she was co-chair of working group I “The Physical Science Basis” in a responsible position in the preparation of the fourth assessment report . She was the first woman to hold a leadership role in the IPCC.

Solomon has been teaching atmospheric chemistry and environmental science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2012 . She has also been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1982 .

Honors

In 1985 she was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal and in 2008 the Grande médaille de l'Académie des sciences . In 2012 she received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category . The National Academy of Sciences awarded her the Arthur L. Day Prize in 2017 for her longstanding leading role in atmospheric chemistry and research into climate change as well as her groundbreaking contribution to the description of stratospheric ozone processes (→ ozone hole ). In 2018 she was selected as a Bakerian Lecturer and was awarded the Crafoord Prize .

Solomon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, the Académie des Sciences in 1995 , the Academia Europaea in 1999 and the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society in 2008.

In her honor, the Solomon Glacier in Antarctica and indirectly the Solomon Saddle are named after her.

Web links

Commons : Susan Solomon  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Susan Solomon. In: American Chemical Society Local Section Chicago - WCC Biographies. March 2006, accessed October 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ Interview with Susan Solomon ( Memento August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), National Academy of Sciences .
3. ^ Bert Bolin : A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change . Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-511-72173-1 , pp. 187 .
4. ↑ Susan Solomon. MIT Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, accessed October 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Susan Solomon. Fundación BBVA, accessed October 11, 2019 . 
6. ↑ 2017 Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship - Susan S. Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved October 11, 2019 . 
7. ^ Solomon Glacier. Retrieved October 11, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Solomon Saddle. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .