John Houghton (physicist)
Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FRS FLSW (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford, former Director General at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre.
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Sir John Houghton speaking at a climate change conference in 2005 | |
| Born | John Theodore Houghton 30 December 1931 Dyserth, Denbighshire, Wales |
| Died | 15 April 2020 (aged 88) Wales |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Oxford (BA 1951, MA 1955, DPhil 1955) |
| Awards | The Chree Medal and Prize (1979) Japan Prize (2006) Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2009) |
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| Fields | Atmospheric physics |
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He was the president of the John Ray Initiative, an organisation "connecting Environment, Science and Christianity", where he has compared the stewardship of the Earth, to the stewardship of the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve. He was a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion. He became the president of the Victoria Institute in 2005.