Dr. Susan Solomon

Dr. Susan Solomon
Climate Scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
1956 -
INDUCTED 2006

Dr. Susan Soloman’s research and reports on climate change contributed to the IPCC sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Albert Gore, Jr. in 2007.

Dr. Susan Solomon is an international thought leader in atmospheric chemistry and climate change. She and her colleagues have researched the irreversibility of global warming linked to carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the Antarctic’s ozone hole’s influence on the climate of the southern hemisphere. For most of her career, Solomon worked as a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder. In 2011, she joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Solomon has served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific body that brings scientists from around the world together under the auspices of the United Nations.

“We are standing on the threshold of a different planet.” — Dr. Susan Solomon