Rutgers Distinguished Professor Alan Robock Receives the 2022 Future of Life Award

L-R: Alan Robock; Georgiy Stenchikov (former Rutgers research professor, now at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology); Ann Druyan (accepting for her deceased husband Carl Sagan, American astronomer and planetary scientist); Brian Toon (Univ. of Colorado); Richard Turco (UCLA); Sylvia Crutzen (accepting for her deceased father Paul Crutzen, Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995); John Birks (Univ. of Colorado), and Mark Peterson (accepting for his sister Jeannie Peterson, editor-in-chief of the 1982 special issue of Ambio, a journal of the human environment published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm). Max Tegmark, professor at MIT and president of the Future of Life Institute, is at far right.

Distinguished Professor Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, received the 2022 Future of Life Award from the Future of Life Institute on August 6 “for reducing the risk of nuclear war by developing and popularizing the science of nuclear winter.” He shares the award with fellow nuclear winter pioneers John Birks, Paul Crutzen, Jeannie Peterson, Carl Sagan, Georgiy Stenchikov, Brian Toon, and …