EGS Honorary Membership 1997
Paul J Crutzen Paul J. Crutzen 

for his fundamental work in atmospheric chemistry and his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the chemistry of the ozone layer
 
  Paul Crutzen received his MSc in 1963, his PhD in 1968 and his DSc in 1973 in the University of Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interest has been atmospheric chemistry and its role in biogeochemical cycles and climate. The list of publications include more than 170 refereed and 50 other research publications, 4 books (co-authored) and 4 books (edited).

Between 1954 - 1974 Paul Crutzen was employed variously at a bridge construction bureau in Amsterdam, a house construction bureau in Sweden, a teacher and researcher at the Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm, Sweden, and a post-doctoral fellow of ESRO at the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford, UK. From 1974 - 1980 he was a scientist and consultant at NCAR and NOAA, Boulder, USA, successively, and adjunct professor at the Atmospheric Science Department of the Colorado State University, USA. Since 1980 Paul Crutzen has been a member of the German Max-Planck-Society and Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division. Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.

Paul Crutzen has served as editor or as member of the editorial board for the EGS journals Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Dynamics as well as for Tellus and Science. Moreover, he has been a member of more than 28 scientific advisory boards, committees and commissions. Since 1970 Paul Crutzen has received more than 40 awards. and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Order of Merit in Germany, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican, the Leo Szilard Award of the APS, the Tyler Prize for the Environment, the Volvo Environment Prize, the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, the Global Ozone Award of UNEP, the Minnie Rosen Award of the Ross University of New York, the Louis J. Battan Award of the AMS, Honorary Doctoral Degrees of the York University, Canada, the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, the University of East Anglia, UK and the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Member of the Academia Europaea, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of Engineering and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate).

Newsletter 63, 29, 1997