Awards & Winners

Roger Revelle

Date of Birth 07-March-1909
Place of Birth Seattle
(King County, United States of America, Washington, Area code 206, Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Political scientist, Scientist, Professor
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. UC San Diego's first college is named Revelle College in his honor.

Awards by Roger Revelle

Check all the awards nominated and won by Roger Revelle.

1990


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his pioneering work in the areas of carbon dioxide and climate modification, oceanographic exploration presaging plate tectonics, and the biological effects of radiation in the marine environment, and studies of human population growth and global food supplies.)