Roger Revelle

Roger Revelle
Roger Revelle (left) with Robert and Mavis White in 1977
Born
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle

(1909-03-07)March 7, 1909
Seattle, Washington, United States
DiedJuly 15, 1991(1991-07-15) (aged 82)
Alma materPomona College
University of California, Berkeley
ChildrenWilliam Revelle
AwardsAlexander Agassiz Medal (1963)
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1984)
Vannevar Bush Award (1984)
William Bowie Medal (1968)
National Medal of Science (1990)
Scientific career
InstitutionsScripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
The atmospheric CO2 concentration

Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, 1909 – July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenic global warming, as well as the movement of Earth's tectonic plates.[1] UC San Diego's first college is named Revelle College in his honor.

  1. ^ Nierenberg, William A. (February 1992). "Obituary: Roger Revelle". Physics Today. 45 (2): 119–120. doi:10.1063/1.2809551. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013.