Alan Robock

Alan Robock
Alan Robock
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ;
Employer	Rutgers University–New Brunswick (1998–) ;
Awards	Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; Fellow of the American Meteorological Society; Jule G. Charney Award (2015) ;
Website	http://people.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/

Alan Robock (born 1949) is an American climatologist. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He advocates nuclear disarmament and, in 2010 and 2011, met with Fidel Castro during lecture trips to Cuba to discuss the dangers of nuclear weapons. Alan Robock was a 2007 IPCC author, a member of the organisation when it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".

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