Paul Crutzen#
| Email: | paul.crutzen 'at' mpic.de |
| Membership Number: | 72 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Username: | pcrutzen |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since Nov 2000: Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
- 1997-2000: Professor (part-time), Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, The Netherlands
- 1992-2008: Distinguished Professor (part-time), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
- 1991-1992: Tage Erlander Professor of the Swedish Natural Research Council at the University of Stockholm, Sweden
- 1987-1991: Professor (part-time), University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, USA
- 1980-2000: Member of the Max-Planck-Society for the Advancement of Science and Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of the Max-Planck-Institute, Mainz
- 1976-1981: Adjunct Professor at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
- 1977-1980: Senior Scientist and Director of the Air Quality Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 1974-1977: Consultant at the Aeronomy Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (half-time) and Researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Boulder (half-time), Colorado, USA
- 1969-1971: Fellow of the European Space Research Organization at Oxford University, England
- pre-1974: Programmer, combined with Licentiat (Ph.D) and D.Sci studies and various teaching and research duties at the University of Stockholm; latest appointment Associate professor
Fields of Scholarship
- atmospheric chemistry and its role in biogeochemical cycles and climate
- atmospheric chemistry
- climate change
- ozone
- greenhouse gases
- biofuels
- geo-engineering
Honours and Awards
- 1988: Founding Member, Academia Europaea
- 1991: Recipient of the Volvo Environmental Prize
- 1991: Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1991: Member, Leopoldina, Halle (since July 2008 "Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften")
- 1994: Recipient of the German Environmental Prize (Federal Foundation for the Environment)
- 1994: Foreign Associate of the U.S. Academy of Sciences
- 1994: Max-Planck-Forschungspreis (with Dr. M. Molina, U.S.A.).
- 1995: Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Dr. M. Molina and Dr. F.S. Rowland)
- 1996: Nederlandse Leeuw" (appointed by the Queen of The Netherlands)
- 2006: Foreign Member of the British Royal Society, London, UK
- 2008 Name "Crutzen" given to asteroid n° 9679, discovered by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on 24.09.1960 in Palomar, USA
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