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Top Climate Scientists

Wallace S. Broecker

Often called the “Grandfather of Climate Science,” Broecker pioneered the study of the history of the earth’s oceans since the Pleistocene epoch by means of radiocarbon and other isotope-based dating systems. Tom M.L. Wigley


Wigley was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1940. He holds a PhD (1967) in mathematical physics from the University of Adelaide. In a long and productive career, he has held posts with Australia’s Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, the University of Waterloo in Canada, the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the UK, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, in the US. He is currently Professor of Climatology in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at the University of Adelaide.Susan Solomon

Solomon was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1956. She holds a PhD (1981) in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. She spent most of her career working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), first with the Chemistry and Climate Processes Group, and later with the Earth System Research Laboratory.