Willi Dansgaard
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Willi Dansgaard, (1922-). Palaeoclimatologist. Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen. Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Icelandic Academy of Sciences, and the Danish Geophysical Society.
He was the first paleoclimatologist to demonstrate that measurements of the trace isotopes oxygen-18 and deuterium in accumulated glacier ice could be used as an indicator of past climate.
In 1966 he took part in the first polar deep ice core drilling expedition, the American Camp Century ice core from Greenland.
Awards
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1996 (http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/tylerprize/dansgard.html)
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize, 1995
- International Glaciological Society's Seligman Crystal
- Swedish Society of Geography and Anthropology's Vega medal
Links
- http://content.aip.org/products/esva/Dansgaard_Willi.html - photo of Dansgaard, Chester C. Langway and Hans Oeschger
- http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_2.shtml