Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen · Science & Medicine
Atmospheric physicist known for research on atmospheric dynamics and tides
1940, Webster, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Richard Lindzen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Atmospheric physicist known for research on atmospheric dynamics and tides
Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist, long a professor at MIT, known for foundational work on atmospheric dynamics, planetary-scale waves and atmospheric tides (the Lindzen–Hong analyses) and for the theory of the quasi-biennial oscillation. Born to Jewish parents who had fled Nazi Germany, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, though a prominent dissenter on climate-sensitivity questions.
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Atmospheric physicist known for research on atmospheric dynamics and tides
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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