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Susan Solomon
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Susan Solomon appears in Vinony's National Medal of Science collection — one of 543 entries. It also appears in Fellows of the Royal Society.
Vinony's link graph records 910 inbound references to Susan Solomon, and connects out to Doctor of Philosophy, David Mumford and National Medal of Science.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including 1956 births, 20th-century American chemists and 20th-century American women physicists.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Coldest March
- Montana Rhapsody
- Solvable
- Armenia - Culture Smart!
- Primitive Thinking
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Key facts
- Born
- 1956 (age 69 – 70) , Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Education
- Illinois Institute of Technology ( BS ) University of California, Berkeley ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Ozone Studies
- Awards
- National Medal of Science (1999) , V. M. Goldschmidt Award (2006) , William Bowie Medal (2007) , Volvo Environment Prize (2009) , Vetlesen Prize (2012) , BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2012) , Crafoord Prize (2018)
- Fields
- Atmospheric chemistry
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Susan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- researcher
- Educated at
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Veronica Vaida
- Field of work
- atmospheric chemistry
- Image
- Susan Solomon-Desk With Globe.jpg
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- member of
- Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Susan Solomon
- date of birth
- 1956-01-19
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Susan Solomon (born 1956) is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she serves as the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Science. Solomon, with her colleagues, was the first to propose the chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole. Her most recent book, Solvable: how we healed the earth, and how we can do it again (2024) focuses on solutions to current problems, as do books by data scientist Hannah Ritchie, marine biologist, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
Solomon is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the French Academy of Sciences. In 2002, Discover magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science. In 2008, Solomon was selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She also serves on the Science and Security Board for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Susan Solomon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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