Nobel Prize Winner to Speak at Michigan Tech
HOUGHTON--Dr. Paul J Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry in Mainz, Germany will give the second presentation in the Melvin Calvin Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Michigan Tech Monday, Oct. 26 at 4:00 p.m. Crutzen won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for pioneering work explaining the processes that deplete the earth's ozone shield. A tree will be planted in his honor during a special ceremony slated to begin at 3:00 p.m. on the campus mall.
Dr. Glenn Seaborg gave the first lecture in the Nobel Laureate series last summer.
Crutzen's address, titled "The Antarctic Ozone Hole: A Man-Caused Chemical Instability in the Stratosphere," will be presented in room 135 of Fisher Hall.
A native of Amsterdam, Holland, Crutzen earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Stockholm University. He began his career as a member of the European Space Research Organization, stationed at the University of Oxford and later had several jobs as research and head of different research institutes in Colorado, including a stint at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Since 1980 he has been head of the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute and recently has also served as a part-time professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and the University of California at La Jolla.
He is a member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has published nearly 200 scientific articles and co-authored or co-edited six books. He is also a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In the United States, he has won the Szilard Award for "Physics in the Public Interest" and the Rosen Award for "High Achievement in the Service to Mankind."
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