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Crutzen

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Crut·zen  (krtsn, -s), Paul Born 1933.
Dutch meteorologist who helped explain the chemical processes involved in the formation and decomposition of ozone, for which he shared a 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry.


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Another idea, espoused by chemist Paul Crutzen, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for his work on the ozone shield, is to scatter masses of sulphur dioxide particles in the stratosphere.
This is the age the Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen has called 'the Anthropocene', because the natural system has been so fundamentally altered by human activity.
In a polemical scientific essay published two years ago, Crutzen suggested an "escape route" if global warming begins to run out of control.
 
 
 
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