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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Roger R. D. Revelle

Title:

Director Emeritus Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Emeritus

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Affiliation:

University of California, San Diego

San Diego,California  

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1991

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1990

Citation:

"For his pioneering work in the areas of carbon dioxide and climate modification, oceanographic exploration presaging plate tectonics, and the biological effects of radiation in the marine environment, and studies of human population growth and global food supplies."

Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.

 

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