10/13/2009

National Academy of Sciences president to present Oct. 20 Rorschach lecture

BY ARIE WILSON PASSWATERS
Rice News staff

Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council, will present the lecture “Climate Change and Constraints on Energy Policy and Practices” at the 13th annual Harold E. Rorschach Memorial Lecture Oct. 20.


	RALPH CICERONE

The lecture, which is sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will be at 4 p.m. in the Sadie R. Smith Auditorium (physics amphitheater) in Herzstein Hall. A reception will immediately follow the lecture in the foyer of the Rice Art Gallery in Sewall Hall.

Cicerone, an expert on atmospheric chemistry, climate change and energy, has been instrumental in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally.

In 1999, he received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of greenhouse gases and ozone depletion and his public policy leadership to protect the global environment. He was also honored twice by the American Geophysical Union – in 1979 with the James B. Macelwane Award for outstanding contributions to geophysics by a young scientist and in 2002 with the Roger Revelle Medal for outstanding research contributions to the understanding of Earth’s atmospheric processes, biogeochemical cycles and key elements of the climate system. The World Cultural Council honored him with the 2004 Albert Einstein World Award in Science.