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| Born | 1940 (age 85–86) |
| Education | Amherst College (BA) Harvard University (MA,PhD) |
| Known for | runaway greenhouse effect,atmospheric dynamics |
| Awards | NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1981),[1] Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997),[2] Gerard P. Kuiper Prize (2007)[3] |
Andrew Perry Ingersoll (born 1940) is an American physicist. He is a professor ofplanetary science at theCalifornia Institute of Technology. Ingersoll was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[4] He received the lifetime achievement award in planetary science, theGerard P. Kuiper Prize, in 2007. He proposed therunaway greenhouse effect and is known for his research on planetary atmospheres and climate.
He was born inChicago, Illinois, in 1940 and moved to Brooklyn as a child, graduating from high school there at age 16. He received his bachelor's degree fromAmherst College in 1960 and his master's degree from Harvard in 1961. He received his Ph.D. ofPhysics fromHarvard University in 1966, focusing ongeophysical fluid dynamics.
After his graduation, he joinedCaltech as an assistant professor in the Planetary Science department in 1966. He became an associate professor in 1971 and a full professor in 1976. He was the Earle C. Anthony Professor ofPlanetary Science at Caltech from 2003 to 2011. He has made significant contributions to understanding planetary atmospheres, including fundamental studies on the runaway greenhouse effect onVenus, andatmospheric physics ongiant planets and the Earth.[5]
He has been a leader in the investigation of planetary weather andclimate, particularly on giant planets and the Earth, for nearly five decades. He has been a key player on the instrument teams for many NASA/JPL missions, includingPioneer Venus,Pioneer Saturn,Voyager,Mars Global Surveyor,Galileo, andCassini.[6]
He has been interviewed about his research on theScience Channel documentary "The Planets". He is the author of the bookPlanetary Climates.[7]
Among many other awards, he received theGerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding lifetime achievement in planetary science in 2007, theNASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1981 for his work on theVoyager program, and was elected as a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[8]
He was elected a Legacy Fellow of theAmerican Astronomical Society in 2020.[9]
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