1. Ralph John Cicerone was an American atmospheric scientist and administrator.
16 Facts About Ralph Cicerone
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Ralph Cicerone was a "renowned authority" on climate change and atmospheric chemistry, and issued an early warning about the grave potential risks of climate change.
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Ralph Cicerone was the first in his family to attend college.
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Ralph Cicerone graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.
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Ralph Cicerone joined the University of Michigan as a research scientist, later holding faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering from 1971 to 1978.
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Ralph Cicerone was appointed senior scientist and director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1980.
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Ralph Cicerone held this position until 1989 when he joined the University of California, Irvine, as professor of earth system science and chaired the Department of Earth System Science from 1989 to 1994, when he became Dean of Physical Sciences.
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Ralph Cicerone held the position of Chancellor of UC Irvine until 2005, when he left to be President of the National Academy of Sciences.
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In 2001, while chancellor of UCI, Cicerone led an academy panel, commissioned by George W Bush, tasked with reporting to him on climate change.
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Ralph Cicerone was a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Academia Sinica, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
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Ralph Cicerone served as president of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest society of earth scientists.
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Ralph Cicerone was the 1999 laureate for the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
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Ralph Cicerone revived the baseball program at UC Irvine in 2002, while he was its chancellor.
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Cicerone was married to Carol M Cicerone and had a daughter and two grandchildren.
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Ralph Cicerone was an avid baseball fan who played varsity baseball during college at MIT.
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Ralph Cicerone died unexpectedly at his home in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey on November 5,2016.