Ralph J. Cicerone
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Cicerone speaking at the NAS Building in 2013
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| Born | Ralph John Cicerone May 2, 1943 New Castle, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | November 5, 2016 (aged 73) Short Hills, New Jersey, US |
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| Thesis | Monte Carlo and Thomson-scatter plasma-line studies of ionospheric photoelectrons (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | S. A. Bowhill |
| Notable awards | Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2004) |
| President of the National Academy of Sciences | |
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In office 2005 – June 30, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Bruce Alberts |
| Succeeded by | Marcia McNutt |
| 4th Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine | |
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In office 1998 – 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Laurel Wilkening |
| Succeeded by | Michael V. Drake |
Ralph John Cicerone (May 2, 1943 – November 5, 2016) was an American atmospheric scientist and administrator. From 1998 to 2005, he was the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. From 2005 to 2016, he was the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He was a "renowned authority" on climate change and atmospheric chemistry, and issued an early warning about the grave potential risks of climate change.
Cicerone was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, on May 2, 1943, to Salvatore and Louise (Palus) Cicerone. His father, an insurance salesman, was the son of Italian immigrants.
Cicerone was the first in his family to attend college. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He was captain of MIT's varsity baseball team. After college, he obtained masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois.
Cicerone joined the University of Michigan as a research scientist, later holding faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering from 1971 to 1978. In 1978 he moved to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as a research chemist. He was appointed senior scientist and director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1980. He held this position until 1989 when he joined the University of California, Irvine (UCI), as professor of earth system science (having founded the department) and chaired the Department of Earth System Science from 1989 to 1994, when he became Dean of Physical Sciences. Cicerone was recognized on the citation for the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to colleague F. Sherwood Rowland. In 1998 he became the fourth Chancellor of UCI and held the position until 2005, when he left to be President of the National Academy of Sciences. He retired as NAS President in June 2016.
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