“Paul Crutzen was a pioneer in many ways,” Martin Stratmann, the president of the Max Planck Society, said in a statement. Mr Crutzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995 together with American chemist F Sherwood Rowland and Mexican chemist Mario J Molina. Mr Crutzen argued that managing these effects “will require appropriate human behaviour at all scales, and may well involve internationally accepted, large-scale geo-engineering projects, for instance to ‘optimise’ climate”. Born in Amsterdam in 1933, Mr Crutzen first trained as an engineer before moving to Sweden in the late 1950s. According to the Nobel Institute, Mr Crutzen got a job as a programmer at Stockholm University’s Department for Meteorology despite having no programming experience.

Source: Irish Independent January 28, 2021 20:39 UTC