Awards & Winners

Charles David Keeling

Date of Birth 20-April-1928
Place of Birth Scranton
(Lackawanna County, United States of America, Pennsylvania, Area code 272)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Charles D. Keeling
Profession Scientist
Charles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming. The Keeling Curve measures the progressive buildup of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere.

Awards by Charles David Keeling

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2001


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his pioneering and fundamental research on atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide, the basis for understanding global carbon cycle and global warming.)