Gilbert Plass

Gilbert Norman Plass
Born(1920-03-22)March 22, 1920
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedMarch 1, 2004(2004-03-01) (aged 83)
Bryan, Texas, U.S.
NationalityCanadian-American
Alma materHarvard University, Princeton University
Known forResearch into the warming properties of carbon dioxide
SpouseThyra
ChildrenGordon Marc Plass and Lucie Susan Plass Kerwood[2]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
ThesisBlack body radiation in the theory of action at a distance. (1946)
Doctoral advisorJohn Archibald Wheeler[1]

Gilbert Norman Plass (March 22, 1920 – March 1, 2004) was a Canadian physicist who in the 1950s made predictions about the increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the 20th century and its effect on the average temperature of the planet that closely match measurements reported half a century later.[3]

  1. ^ "Gilbert Norman Plass". Physics Tree (academictree.org).
  2. ^ "Gilbert Plass". NNDB. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
  3. ^ Gilbert N. Plass, James Rodger Fleming, and Gavin Schmidt, "Carbon Dioxide and the Climate", American Scientist, 98(1) 58-62. An abridged reprint of Plass's 1959 Scientific American paper with commentary by Fleming and Schmidt