George M. Sheldrick
1942 - Present (80 years)
George Michael Sheldrick, FRS is a British chemist who specialises in molecular structure determination. He is one of the most cited workers in the field, having over 280,000 citations as of 2020 and an h-index of 113. He was a professor at the University of Göttingen from 1978 until his retirement in 2011.
Go to ProfileStephanie Abrams
1978 - Present (44 years)
Stephanie Abrams is an American television meteorologist who has worked for The Weather Channel since 2003. She currently co-hosts AMHQ with Jen Carfagno and Jim Cantore early weekday mornings. Education A graduate of Space Camp, Abrams attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in geography, with a minor in mathematics. She graduated with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, where she served as President of the chapter.
Go to ProfileAda Yonath
1939 - Present (83 years)
Areas of Specialization: Crystallography Yonath is Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. She received her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962, her master’s in biochemistry in 1964, and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1968. Yonath is a crystallographer, a branch of chemistry that studies the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. Yonath has applied crystallographic techniques to the study of the ribosome, which has resulted in pioneering research in that area.
Go to ProfileDavid Harvey
1935 - Present (87 years)
David W. Harvey is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.
Go to ProfileMichael E. Mann
1965 - Present (57 years)
Areas of Specialization: Climatology, Atmospheric Sciences Michael E. Mann is the director of the Earth System Science Center for Pennsylvania State University, a climatologist, and geophysicist. He has earned an A.B. in applied mathematics and an A.B. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, before earning an M.S. and M.Phil in physics, an M.Phil in geology, and a Ph.D in geology & geophysics from Yale University. His work has resulted in new techniques for recording and evaluating past climate data and how to distinguish between useful climate data and statistical noise. Mann is a prolific writer with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications to his credit.
Go to ProfileKerry Emanuel
1955 - Present (67 years)
Kerry Andrew Emanuel is an American professor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In particular he has specialized in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms acting to intensify hurricaness.
Go to ProfileLaura Tobin
1981 - Present (41 years)
Laura Elizabeth Tobin FRMS is an English broadcast meteorologist, currently employed by ITV. Tobin worked for the BBC before moving to the ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak in 2012. Daybreak was later replaced by Good Morning Britain in early 2014. Tobin currently presents the weather bulletins for the programme.
Go to ProfileJane Bunn
1978 - Present (44 years)
Jane Bunn is an Australian meteorologist and weather presenter. Bunn is the weather presenter on Seven News Melbourne. Career Bunn completed a Bachelor of Science at Monash University in 2005, where she had majors in Atmospheric Science and Mathematics. In 2006, Jane was selected to undertake a Graduate Diploma of Meteorology provided by the Bureau of Meteorology. After completing her degree she was posted to work as a weather forecaster in Sydney, then Canberra and finally at RAAF's Williamtown base. She has also completed a Graduate Certificate in Journalism from Charles Sturt University.
Go to ProfileJames Lovelock
1919 - Present (103 years)
James Ephraim Lovelock is a British independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
Go to ProfileYi-Fu Tuan
1930 - Present (92 years)
Yi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-American geographer. He is one of the key figures in human geography and arguably the most important originator of humanistic geography. Early life and education Born in 1930 in Tianjin, China to an upper-class family, he was educated in China, Australia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. He attended University College London, but graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in 1951 and 1955 respectively. From there he went to California to continue his geographic education. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkel...
Go to ProfileErica Grow
1980 - Present (42 years)
Erica Alicia Grow-Cei is an American meteorologist and television reporter who is on PIX 11 News for New York City. Early life Erica Grow was born and raised in Bethlehem in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. She graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology in 2002.
Go to ProfileJudith Curry
1953 - Present (69 years)
Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, climate models, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She was a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee, published over a hundred scientific papers, and co-edited several major works. Curry retired from academia in 2017 at age 63.
Go to ProfileRoderick MacKinnon
1956 - Present (66 years)
Roderick MacKinnon is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.
Go to ProfileRichard Chorley
1927 - 2002 (75 years)
Richard John Chorley was an English geographer, and Professor of Geography at Cambridge University, known as leading figure in quantitative geography in the late 20th century, who played an instrumental role in bringing in the use of systems theory to geography.
Go to ProfileDylan Dreyer
1981 - Present (41 years)
Dylan Marie Dreyer is an American television meteorologist working for NBC News. She is a weather anchor and rotates with Sheinelle Jones in the Orange Room on Weekend Today and MSNBC on weekends. Dreyer frequently appears on Today on weekdays as a weather correspondent and as a fill-in for Al Roker and Carson Daly. She also appears on The Weather Channel and on NBC Nightly News. Dreyer joined NBC News in September 2012 after having worked at the now former NBC station WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts since 2007. She is also an anchor on Today's 3rd Hour.
Go to ProfileWilliam Bunge
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
William Wheeler Bunge Jr. was an American geographer active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial theorist. He also became a radical geographer and anti-war activist in the US and Canada. Personal life Bunge served in the American Fifth Army during the height of the Korean War, November 1950 to November 1952. He completed a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1955. He studied under Richard Hartshorne, the first professional geographer he had ever met. He gained a PhD in quantitative geography from the Department of Geography, University of Washington in 1960.
Go to ProfileJared Diamond
1937 - Present (85 years)
Jared Mason Diamond is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee ; Guns, Germs, and Steel ; Collapse , The World Until Yesterday , and Upheaval . Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology. He is a professor of geography at UCLA.
Go to ProfileWilliam Garrison
1924 - 2015 (91 years)
William Louis Garrison was an American geographer, transportation analyst and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the Department of Geography, University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science. Many of his students went on to become noted professors themselves, including: Brian Berry, Ronald Boyce, Duane Marble, Richard Morrill, John Nystuen, William Bunge, Michael Dacey, Arthur Getis, and Waldo Tobler.
Go to ProfileMichael Frank Goodchild
1944 - Present (78 years)
Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988, as part of the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for over 20 years. In 2008, he founded the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies.
Go to ProfileAziz Ab'Sáber
1924 - 2012 (88 years)
Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber was a geographer and one of Brazil's most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography, geology, ecology and archaeology. Graduated in geography, he was a president and honorary president of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência , Emeritus Professor of the University of São Paulo and member of the highest rank - Order Grão-Cruz in Earth Sciences - of the Academy of Science. Among the awards, he has received the UNESCO Prize on Science and the Environment in 2001 and the Prize to the Intellectual of Brazil in 2011.
Go to ProfileMagdalena Roze
1982 - Present (40 years)
Magdalena Roze is an Australian meteorologist, weather presenter and journalist. Early life Roze was a scholarship holder and graduate from the University of Sydney where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication. In addition to her media qualification, Roze completed a Graduate Diploma in Atmospheric Science at Macquarie University, winning the 2009 Biophysical Environments Prize and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Prize for her academic achievements.
Go to ProfileEdward Norton Lorenz
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology. He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
Go to ProfileTorsten Hägerstrand
1916 - 2004 (88 years)
Torsten Hägerstrand was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography. A native and resident of Sweden, Hägerstrand was a professor of geography at Lund University, where he received his doctorate in 1953. His doctoral research was on cultural diffusion. His research has helped to make Sweden, and particularly Lund, a major center of innovative work in cultural geography. He also influenced the practice of spatial planning in Sweden through his students.
Go to ProfileNigel Thrift
1949 - Present (73 years)
Areas of Specialization: Human Geography Sir Nigel Thrift is the Executive Director of the Schwarzman Scholars and a noted geographer. Thrift studied geography at the University of Wales, Lampeter and earned a Ph.D from the University of Bristol. He has been influential in the fields of geography and economics, and is even credited with inventing the term soft capitalism. His work has extended beyond geography to the impacts of capitalism and labor markets. He has provided extensive leadership in his field, including as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at University of Oxford and as Vice Chancellor at University of Warwick.
Go to ProfileEdward Soja
1940 - 2015 (75 years)
Edward William Soja was a self-described urbanist, a noted postmodern political geographer and urban theorist on the planning faculty at UCLA, where he was Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics. He had a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. His early research focused on planning in Kenya, but Soja came to be known as the world's leading spatial theorist with a distinguished career writing on spatial formations and social justice.
Go to ProfileIan McCaskill
1938 - 2016 (78 years)
Ian McCaskill was a BBC weather forecaster. Early life McCaskill attended Queen's Park Secondary in Glasgow, and then the University of Glasgow, where he studied geology and chemistry. Career McCaskill joined the RAF in 1959 as part of his National Service and became an airman meteorologist, first in Scotland and then in Cyprus. He once joked that when he joined the RAF he was given a choice between Catering and Meteorology, he didn't know what meteorology was but he knew he couldn't cook. He left the RAF in 1961 and joined the Met Office, working at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Malta and Manch...
Go to ProfileReed Timmer
1980 - Present (42 years)
Reed Timmer is an American meteorologist and storm chaser. He is known for starring in the Discovery Channel reality television series Storm Chasers, as well as in the documentary film Tornado Glory and in the series Tornado Chasers. He also worked with Mike Theiss in the reality television series Storms Rising on Disney+.
Go to ProfileSeán Batty
1982 - Present (40 years)
Seán Batty is a meteorologist, currently working for STV. Before this he was a Broadcast Assistant at the BBC Weather Centre and occasionally presented forecasts in BBC regions. Early life Born in Paisley, he attended Castlehead High School and studied meteorology at the University of Reading. His interest in meteorology began when he was only seven years old, after receiving a BBC weather kit for his birthday. Batty became the weather forecaster for the school newspaper as well as the regional newspaper, the Paisley Daily Express, for a few months during the summer of 1996.
Go to ProfileMegan Linnea Glaros is an American meteorologist. She was formerly the weekday morning meteorologist for WBBM-TV in Chicago and the weekend meteorologist/weekday entertainment reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City.
Go to ProfileMojib Latif
1954 - Present (68 years)
Mojib Latif is a German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent. Latif graduated with a Diplom in meteorology in 1983. He took a position as scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in 1985. In 1987 he earned a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Hamburg. In 2003 he became professor at IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. Mojib Latif is a regular guest at TV discussions about global warming.
Go to ProfileDerek Gregory
1951 - Present (71 years)
Derek Gregory is the Peter Wall Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. He earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. His area of specialty has been the survey of history and social issues through a geographical lens. He has written extensively about geography, most notably, perhaps, in his book The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, in which he evaluates the geopolitics of actions taken by the United Kingdom, the United States, and Israel within those countries. He has been interested in what he calls...
Go to ProfileErik Swyngedouw
1956 - Present (66 years)
Erik Achille Marie Swyngedouw is professor of geography at the University of Manchester in the School of Environment, Education and Development and a member of the Manchester Urban Institute. Background Born in Dutch-speaking Belgium and fluent in Dutch, English, French, and Spanish, he graduated from Sint-Jozefscollege, Hasselt in 1974. He graduated with an MSc in Agricultural Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1979, with a thesis focussed on agrarian change in the community of Heers. His 1985 Master in Urban and Regional Planning was also from Leuven. He earned his PhD wi...
Go to ProfileRob Gell
1952 - Present (70 years)
Rob Gell AM is a geomorphologist and weather presenter, with a degree in meteorology. Gell attended Camberwell Grammar School as a student in the 1960s. Gell has been a weather presenter for National Nine News and later Seven News. He was one of the few Australian weather presenters on free-to-air television with a degree in science, along with David Brown and Magdalena Roze.
Go to ProfileKirsty McCabe
1975 - Present (47 years)
Kirsty McCabe is a Scottish weather forecaster and presenter at Sky News, and was formerly the senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel, based at the UK office in London. Early life Kirsty attended Annanhill Primary School and Grange Academy, while at high school McCabe was an early member of the Palace Youth Theatre which was a joint venture between Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council and Borderline Theatre Company. During this time she played roles in many stage productions including Alice in Alice in Wonderland and performed as a solo singer on many occasions, notably performing Joh...
Go to ProfileNoel Castree
1968 - Present (54 years)
Noel Castree FAcSS is a British geographer whose research has focused on capitalism-environment relationships and, more recently, on the role that various experts play in discourses about global environmental change. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Progress in Human Geography.
Go to ProfileJanice Huff
1960 - Present (62 years)
Janice Huff is the chief meteorologist for WNBC in New York City. Early years As she has sometimes noted on her newscast, though born in New York City, at an early age she moved to her grandparents house in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Eau Claire High School with honors, where she was a member of the National Honor Society, Secretary of the Student Council, Varsity Cheerleader, and Miss Shamrock 1978.
Go to ProfileGregory S. Forbes
1950 - Present (72 years)
Gregory Stanley Forbes is The Weather Channel's long-time severe weather expert and has a significant research background in the areas of severe convective storms and tornadoes. Born and raised near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Forbes earned a B.S. degree in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University . He studied tornadoes and severe thunderstorms at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. There, Forbes studied under famous tornado scientist Ted Fujita and his thesis was regarding the 1974 Super Outbreak where he and Fujita did aerial and ground investigations documenting tornado paths and furthering ideas of the tornado family and of multiple-vortex tornadoes.
Go to ProfileLucy Verasamy
1980 - Present (42 years)
Lucy Verasamy is a British weather forecaster for ITV Weather, ITV Racing and ITV's Good Morning Britain. Early life and education Verasamy was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk and attended Silfield Primary School in Wymondham, Framlingham College Junior School in Suffolk and King Edward VII School in King's Lynn, where she studied A-Level Geography. She graduated with a BSc degree in Geography from Brunel University in 2001.
Go to ProfileBrian Hoskins
1945 - Present (77 years)
Professor Sir Brian John Hoskins, CBE FRS, is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the Imperial College London and the University of Reading. A mathematician by training, his research has focused on understanding atmospheric motion from the scale of fronts to that of the Earth, using a range of theoretical and numerical models. He is perhaps best known for his work on the mathematical theory of extratropical cyclones and frontogenesis, particularly through the use of potential vorticity. He has also produced research across many areas of meteorology, including the Indi...
Go to ProfileRichard Alley
1957 - Present (65 years)
Areas of Specialization: Glaciology, Ice and Climate, Sea Level Change, Abrupt Climate Change Richard Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and among the most highly cited researchers in the world. He attended Ohio State University before earning a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Alley is a prolific writer with more than 240 scientific publications. He has specialized in the study of Earth’s cryosphere and climate change. He has been a highly-sought expert voice, testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the U.S.
Go to ProfileDavid Karoly
1955 - Present (67 years)
David John Karoly is an Australian atmospheric scientist, currently based at CSIRO. Education and academic career In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne, but later became interested in meteorology. In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Reading in Reading, England.
Go to ProfileKevin E. Trenberth
1944 - Present (78 years)
Kevin Edward Trenberth is part of the Climate Analysis Section at the US NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change and serves on the Scientific Steering Group for the Climate Variability and Predictability program. He chaired the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel from 2004 to 2010 and chaired the Global Energy and Water Exchanges scientific steering group from 2010 to 2013 . In addition, he served on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme, and has made signific...
Go to ProfileTomasz Schafernaker
1979 - Present (43 years)
Tomasz Schafernaker is a Polish-British meteorologist for BBC Weather. Early life Schafernaker was born in Gdańsk, Poland, and attended school both in his native Poland and in Britain. He was educated at the independent school St. John's College, Southsea, in Portsmouth, where he took A-levels in mathematics, physics and art, followed by the University of Reading where he gained a BSc in Meteorology.
Go to ProfileRoger A. Pielke
1946 - Present (76 years)
Roger A. Pielke Sr. is an American meteorologist with interests in climate variability and climate change, environmental vulnerability, numerical modeling, atmospheric dynamics, land/ocean – atmosphere interactions, and large eddy/turbulent boundary layer modeling. He particularly focuses on mesoscale weather and climate processes but also investigates on the global, regional, and microscale. Pielke is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.
Go to ProfileJerry Taft
1943 - 2020 (77 years)
Jerry Taft was an American meteorologist and weather presenter who served as chief meteorologist for WLS-TV in Chicago. He worked for 34 years with WLS, and for 42 years as a broadcast meteorologist in the Chicago media market.
Go to ProfileEric Sheppard
1950 - Present (72 years)
Eric Sheppard is a British and American geographer, and Professor of Economic geography at UCLA. Background Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England and studied geography at the University of Bristol under Peter Haggett before moving to Canada and completing his Ph.D in Geography in 1976 at the University of Toronto. He taught for most of his career at the University of Minnesota before moving to UCLA. He served as President of the Association of American Geographers .
Go to ProfileBrian Kobilka
1955 - Present (67 years)
Brian Kent Kobilka is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor in the department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G protein-coupled receptors. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Go to ProfileRobert Hazen
1948 - Present (74 years)
Areas of Specialization: Mineralogy Robert Miller Hazen is an astrobiologist and mineralogist. He earned a B.S. and S.M. in earth science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D in mineralogy and crystallography from Harvard University. Hazen is currently the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University and the Executive Director of the Deep Carbon Observatory, a global research study of the impacts of carbon. He is also a research scientist for the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory. Hazen has spent much of his career collaborating with Larry Finger.
Go to ProfileMohammad Hassan Ganji
1912 - 2012 (100 years)
Mohammad Hassan Ganji Ph.D , was an Iranian meteorologist and academic. He was born in Birjand. He is credited as being the father of modern geography in Iran. Education He completed his studies in Tehran and continued to study geography in England and the United States. He next began to teach at the University of Tehran and was the first who began to teach modern geography at universities. Ganji established the Iran Meteorological Organization in 1955 and ran the organization for several years. He is often acknowledged as the father of modern geography in Iran.
Go to ProfileTim Cresswell
1965 - Present (57 years)
Tim Cresswell is a British human geographer and poet. Cresswell is the Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh having formally served as the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He is a human geographer by training and the author of six books on the role of place and mobility in cultural life, co-editor of four collections and an inaugural managing editor of the journal, "GeoHumanities". Cresswell is a leading figure in the mobilities paradigm. Tim Cresswell is also a poet and the author of three collections published by Penned in the Margins "Soil" , "Fence" and "Plastiglomerate" .
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