Paul J. Crutzen or Paul Jozef Crutzen won the Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work as an atmospheric chemist and especially for his extensive study of the problem of ozone depletion. He was born in Amsterdam in 1993 on the 3rd of December. He is currently employed as the Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry at Mainz in Germany.
Paul J. Crutzen – Education
Paul J. Crutzen did his high school from 1946 to 1951 in Amsterdam and then went on to complete his civil engineering degree from the Middelbare Technische School or the MTS. He completed his Masters Degree in 1963 following which he pursued his Ph.D.; the title of his dissertation was “Determination of parameters appearing in the 'dry' and the 'wet' photochemical theories for ozone in the stratosphere”. He acquired his doctoral degree or D.Sc. in 1973. The topic of his research paper was “On the photochemistry of ozone in the stratosphere and troposphere and pollution of the stratosphere by high-flying aircrafts”.
Paul J. Crutzen – The Atmospheric Chemist
Paul J. Crutzen began his professional career with the Bridge Construction Bureau of the City of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He also worked as a consultant in computers and at various places as an academician. He was part of the Department of Meteorology at the
University of Stockholm as a Research Associate and Research Professor. He also served as the Adjunct
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Professor of the Colorado State University at the Department of the Atmospheric Sciences. He became a member of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in the 1980s. He was also appointed as a part-time Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and at the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He became an honorary professor at the University of Mainz in Germany in 1993.
Paul J. Crutzen – A Champion in His Field
Paul J. Crutzen’s distinguished academic career led him being felicitated by major international institutions. He became the proud recipient of several awards. These included the Tyler Prize for the Environment in 1989 and the Volvo Environmental Prize in 1991. He also acquired an Honorary Doctoral Degree from the School of Environmental Sciences of the University of East Anglia. He received the Nobel Prize for his outstanding work in the field of Chemistry in 1995. In the same year, he also received the United Nations Environment Ozone Awards for Outstanding Contribution for the Protection of the Ozone Layer.
His field of expertise lay in atmospheric chemistry and its importance in biogeochemical cycle and the state of climate. His works involved reviewing nearly 170 publications and he was also the author of 50 other publications. Paul J. Crutzen edited four books and co-authored an equal number.
Paul J. Crutzen is one of the respected and most well-known personalities of Amsterdam.
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