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10 Jun 2025
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Paul J. Crutzen – interactions with friends and colleagues
Abstract. Paul J. Crutzen was a brilliant scientist and a pioneer in atmospheric sciences. But at the same time, he was a kind-hearted, humorous and pleasant person. He had lots of empathy for the private lives of colleagues and students and he had always time for his family. The idea of this contribution is to report a few anecdotes on Paul’s life, which were contributed by friends and colleagues. Taken together these anecdotes should shed some light on the person Paul Crutzen, which is perhaps less visible, when focusing on his (many) scientific achievements.
How to cite. Müller, R., Bengtsson, L., Birks, J., Burrows, J., Jaenicke, R., and Stolarski, R. S.: Paul J. Crutzen – interactions with friends and colleagues, Hist. Geo Space. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-2025-2, in review, 2025.
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Institute of Climate and Energy Systems: Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Lennart Bengtsson
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
John Birks
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 and 2B Technologies, 6800 W. 117th Ave., Broomfield, CO 80020
John Burrows
University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Ruprecht Jaenicke
Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, University of Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Richard S. Stolarski
Earth Planetary Sciences Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
deceased, 22 February 2024
Short summary
This paper reports a few anecdotes from the life of Paul Crutzen, which were contributed by friends and colleagues. Taken together these anecdotes should shed some light on the person Paul Crutzen, which is perhaps less visible, when focusing only on his scientific achievements.
This paper reports a few anecdotes from the life of Paul Crutzen, which were contributed by...