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John Houghton

1931 - 2020

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Sir John Theodore Houghton (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. He was lead editor of the first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford, former Director General at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre. He was the president of the John Ray Initiative, an organisation "connecting Environment, Science and Christianity", where he has compared the stewardship of the Earth, to the stewardship of the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Houghton is the 471st most popular physicist (up from 780th in 2019), the 2,251st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,250th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Houghton ranks 471 out of 851Before her are Berta Karlik, Rashid Sunyaev, Gabriele Veneziano, Sameera Moussa, Mildred Dresselhaus, and John Canton. After her are Wilhelm Hisinger, Emil Wiechert, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Carlo Rovelli, Heinrich Barkhausen, and Pyotr Lebedev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, John Houghton ranks 191Before her are Rajko Kuzmanović, Johnny Kitagawa, Carl Brashear, William P. Clark Jr., Sergio Sebastiani, and Lucio Urtubia. After her are Philip Baker Hall, Dan Gurney, Stelios Kazantzidis, Tosiwo Nakayama, Cecil Andrus, and Cleopa Msuya. Among people deceased in 2020, John Houghton ranks 209Before her are Peter Sutcliffe, Terry Goodkind, Duje Bonačić, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Pierino Prati, and Lucio Urtubia. After her are Suhaila Siddiq, Fou Ts'ong, Mustafa Nadarević, Samuel Little, Jackie Stallone, and Flavio Cotti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Houghton ranks 2,251 out of 8,785Before her are David Seaman (1963), Eric Woolfson (1945), Robert Conquest (1917), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Anthony Blunt (1907), and Robert Broom (1866). After her are Johnny Herbert (1964), Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Andy Gibb (1958), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Katie Johnson (1878), and Alexander Wilson (1766).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Houghton ranks 53Before her are John Kerr (1824), William Watson (1715), Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Henry Poynting (1852), John Dollond (1706), and John Canton (1718). After her are Alfred Ewing (1855), Frederick Guthrie (1833), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), Paul Davies (1946), and William Robert Grove (1811).