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Susan Solomon
Susan Solomon has been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2012, where she teaches classes on environmental science and policy. Prior to that, she was a scientist at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado and an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado from 1982-2011. She is well known for pioneering work that explained why there is a hole in the Antarctic ozone layer. She is also the author of several influential scientific papers in climate science, including the understanding of how the ozone hole influences southern hemisphere climate. She has received the 1999 US National Medal of Science (the highest scientific award in the United States), the Grande Medaille (the highest award of the French Academy of Sciences), and the Crafoord Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society in the UK, and the Scien
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Amine is recognized for his innovative contributions and prolific spirit in the field of battery technology.
Khalil Amine, a senior materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy s Argonne National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors.
An Argonne distinguished fellow and leader of the lab s Electrochemical Energy Storage technology development group, Amine is recognized for his innovation and prolific spirit in research and development of advanced materials and battery systems. Amine is the most cited scientist in the world in the field of battery technology, and he currently holds 113 patents and 56 patent applications. He has also published over 643 papers in high impact journals. His research and development in battery systems has led to applications in fields ranging from medicine to the military. For his contributions, Amine received Scientif
500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy
by Justin Catanoso on 15 February 2021
Last week, more than 500 top scientists and economists issued a letter to leaders in the US, EU, Japan, South Korea, and the UK, urging them to stop harvesting and burning forests as a means of making energy in converted coal burning power plants.
The burning of forest biomass to produce electricity has boomed due to this power source having been tolerated as carbon neutral by the United Nations, which enables nations to burn forest biomass instead of coal and not count the emissions in helping them meet their Paris Climate Agreement carbon reduction targets.
Jeremiah Ostriker
Jeremiah Ostriker is an astrophysicist whose academic positions have been divided among Princeton University, Cambridge University and Columbia University. In cosmology he led in showing the dominance of dark matter and dark energy over the ordinary chemical elements. His administrative positions include Provost of Princeton University and Treasurer/Councilor of the US National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2000.
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