Awards & Winners

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Date of Birth 08-March-1942
Place of Birth Venezuela
(South America, Latin America, Americas)
Nationality Venezuela
Also know as Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
Profession Professor, Scientist
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is a Venezuelan-American hydrologist. He currently serves as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University. Rodriguez-Iturbe was born in Venezuela and has taught at many universities including University of Zulia, MIT, Texas A&M, University of Iowa and taught for 20 years at the Simon Bolivar University. He is a member of the US National Committee for the International Institute for Applied System Analysis since 2004. In 2008, he received a special recognition from the World Cultural Council. He believes in evolutionary theory and global warming. He rejects intelligent design on a purely scientific basis. He graduated at University of Zulia as Civil Engineer and did graduates studies at Caltech and got his PhD at Colorado State University in 1967.

Awards by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe.

2010


Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water - Creativity Prize
(For their groundbreaking work with the Cosmic Ray Probe, a technology which uses cosmic-ray neutrons to measure soil moisture content and snow pack thickness over an area of tens of hectares \u2014 passively, non-invasively and economically.)