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The 105th Distinguished Research Lecture will be presented on Oct. 18 at 3 p.m. in the Cristol Chemistry 140 auditorium. The Distinguished Research Lectureship is the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member by the Graduate School. Its purpose is to honor and recognize an entire body of creative work and research. This year鈥檚 recipient of the award, Dr. Owen Brian Toon, will present 鈥淒ead Dinosaurs and Nuclear Wars.鈥� Dr. Toon was awarded the American Physical Society鈥檚 1985 Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest for his work on nuclear winter. He studies radiative transfer, aerosol and cloud physics, atmospheric chemistry and parallels between the Earth and planets.

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