Georgy Galitzine

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Georgii Sergeyevich Golitsyn (Russian: Георгий Сергеевич Голицын) (born January 23, 1935 in Moscow) is a prominent Russian scientist in the field of Atmospheric Physics, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (later of Russia), Editor-in-Chief of Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, ISSN 0001-4338 Since 1990 Director of the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia.

A scion of the Galitzine princely family, he is the recipient of the RAS A.A. Friedman prize (1990) for his works on “Study of the General Circulation of Atmosphere and Convection.” In 1996 he was awarded Demidov Prize for his geostudies. In 2005 he was awarded Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences [1]. Academician Golitsyn is founding member of Sigma Xi Moscow.

[edit] See also

• Nuclear winter

[edit] External links

• Brief Scientific Resumé
• Brief Scientific Resumé (in Russian)
• On the 70th Birthday of Academician Georgii Sergeevich Golitsyn
• A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics,RAS
• Sigma Xi Moscow, Russia - International Partner Chapter
• photo of Academician Golitsyn (on the left)