Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn (russian: Георгий Сергеевич Голицын) (born January 23, 1935 in

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) is a prominent

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in the field of

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, full member of the

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(later of Russia) since 1987, Editor-in-Chief o
Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
, member of the

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since 2000. 1990-2009 - Director of the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics,

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. He is a member of the princely house of Golitsyn. His father is the Russian writer Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn. In the 1960s studied atmospheric circulation on other planets. In 1969 he predicted the small difference between nighttime and daytime temperature on

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and its high wind velocities. He also developed a model for study of dust storms on

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. He was also able to show that severe forest fires in Siberia in 1915 had caused global cooling. Golitsyn is regarded by some in Russia as the author of the

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theory, which was also developed by

Vladimir Alexandrov Vladimir Valentinovich Alexandrov (russian: Владимир Валентинович Александров; born 1938; disappeared 1985) was a Soviet/Russian physicist who created a mathematical model for the nuclear winter theory. He disappear ...

and G.I.Stenchikov and by the authors of the so-called TTAPS study. In 1982 he became aware of the work of the

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on the subject and attended the TTAPS review meeting with Alexandrov and Nikolai Moiseev in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 1983.Laurence Badash, ''A Nuclear Winter's Tale'', Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
/ref> He applied his model of dust storms to the situation that might follow a nuclear catastropheVladimir Gubarev, "Tea Drinking in The Academy. Academician G. S. Golitsyn: Agitations of the Sea and Earth", Nauka i Zhizn, No.3, 2001 (in Russian)
/ref> and reported his findings at the first Meeting of the Committee of Soviet Scientists in Defence of Peace Against the Nuclear Threat in May 1983, of which he became a vice-chairman. In 1984 he participated in an expert group under the

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to prepare the United Nations report “Climatic and other consequences of large-scale nuclear war”. G.S. Golitsyn is the recipient of the

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Friedmann Prize (1990) for his works on “Study of the General Circulation of Atmosphere and

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.” In 1997 he was named Honorary Scholar of the

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. In 1996 he was awarded the

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for his geostudies. In 2005 he was awarded

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Medal of th
European Union of Geosciences
In 2011 he was named Honorary Fellow of the

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. Academician Golitsyn is founding member of

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Moscow.

References

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Brief Scientific Resumé

(in Russian)
On the 70th Birthday of Academician Georgii Sergeevich Golitsyn

Sigma Xi Moscow, Russia - International Partner Chapter

photo of Academician Golitsyn (on the left)

Books

* Г.С. Голицын. Введение в динамику планетных атмосфер (Russian). Л.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1973. * Г.С. Голицын. Исследование конвекции с геофизическими приложениями и аналогиями (Russian). Л.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1980. * М.И. Будыко, Г.С. Голицын, Ю.А. Израэль. Климатические Катастрофы (Russian). М.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1987. In English: M.I. Budyko, G.S. Golitsyn, Y.A. Izrael. Global climatic catastrophes. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988. * B.M. Boubnov, G.S. Golitsyn. Convection in rotating fluids. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. * Г.С. Голицын. Динамика природных процессов (Russian). М.: Физматлит, 2004. * Г.С. Голицын. Микро- и макромиры и гармония (Russian). М.: Квант, 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Golitsyn, Georgy 1935 births Living people Georgy Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Soviet physicists 20th-century Russian physicists Demidov Prize laureates Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Members of Academia Europaea

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