International Environmental Leadership Medal, United Nations, 1982
United Nations Environment Programme, North American Leadership Medal, 1989[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Institutions
1946–1961 Director, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder and Climax, Colorado
1956–1990 Professor of Astrogeophysics, University of Colorado (active, on leave or emeritus)
1960–1968 Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research
1960–1973 Chief Executive Officer and President, University Corporation for Scientific Research
1968–1969 President, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1974–1981 Director, program on Food, Climate and the World's Future, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies[2]
Walter Orr Roberts (August 20, 1915 – March 12, 1990) was an American astronomer and atmospheric physicist, as well as an educator, philanthropist, and builder.[3] He founded the National Center for Atmospheric Research and took a personal research interest for many years in the study of influences of the Sun on weather and climate.
^Remembering Walt Roberts. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, 1991, p.217
^Remembering Walt Roberts. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, 1991, p.216
^Eddy, J.A. (1992). Walter Orr Roberts (1915–1990). Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 24, 1331. 10.3847/BAASOBIT1992012 [1]
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