Paul J. Crutzen

Paul Josef Crutzen [' krutsə ] ( born December 3, 1933, Amsterdam) is a Dutch meteorologist. He worked from 1980 to 2000 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and was awarded in 1995 for his work in the field of atmospheric chemistry, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Career

After various appointments in the construction field, he went to Sweden, received his doctorate and taught at the University of Stockholm at the Department of Meteorology. Crutzen published in 1970 a fundamental work to the ability of nitrogen oxides to reduce ozone and thereby described the ongoing reactions. Between 1974 and 1980, Crutzen research at various facilities in Boulder (Colorado). In 1980 he was appointed professor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, where he oversaw the department atmospheric chemistry. In 1982 he published there along with John Birks the first publication on the subject of Nuclear winter.

Together with Mario J. Molina and Frank Sherwood Rowland, he was one of the pioneers of the study of the ozone hole in 1995 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, as he explained the influence of polar stratospheric clouds there.

In his unpublished 2007 study N2O release from agro- biofuel production negates global warming reduction by Replacing fossil fuels Crutzen suggests climate-damaging consequences of the cultivation of agricultural energy crops.

Awards and Honors

Honorary Doctorates

Publications (selection )

• The Spaceship Earth has no emergency exit. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-06176-3.
• Main theme of the conference. Physical chemistry of the atmosphere. German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Frankfurt am Main, 1999.
• (Ed.): atmosphere, climate, environment. 2nd edition. Spectrum, Akademie Verlag, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8274-0122-4.
• (Ed.): Clouds, chemistry and climate. Springer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-540-60433-2.
• (Ed.): The end of the blue planet? . 3rd edition. Beck, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-406-33140-8.
• Global aspects of atmospheric chemistry. Natural and anthropogenic influences. West German publisher, Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-08347-3.
• (Ed.): Black Sky. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-10-013103-7.
• (Eds.): Analysis and evaluation of the model systems for the prediction of changes in the ozone content of the atmosphere. Environmental Research Plan of the Federal Minister of the Interior. 2 vols. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz 1989 /1990.