Peter Simon Liss

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FRS (born 27 October 1942) is a British

environmental scientist Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

, and professorial fellow, at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

Background

Liss studied at Durham University, earning a

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...

. He then completed a PhD at the

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Career

His research group is a part of the Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry (LGMAC). He is a member of the Solar Radiation Working Group. He was awarded the Challenger Society Medal in 2000 and the John Jeyes Medal of the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Royal Instit ...

in 2003/04.

References

External links

*https://royalsociety.org/people/peter-liss-11824/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20120415140750/http://www.vmine.net/scienceinparliament/9%20Feb%20Marine%20Engineering%20meeting%20notice%20revised270110.pdf *http://www.nio.org/index/option/com_newsdisplay/task/view/tid/4/sid/23/nid/77 1942 births Living people Alumni of University College, Durham Academics of the University of East Anglia Fellows of the Royal Society Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British scientists Environmental scientists {{UK-scientist-stub