Roger revelle biography

Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, – July 15, ) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California San Diego and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenicglobal warming, as well as the movement of Earth's tectonic plates.^[1] UC San Diego's first college is named Revelle College in his honor.

Roger revelle biography

Career

Roger Revelle was born in Seattle to William Roger Revelle and Ella Dougan, and grew up in southern California, graduating from Pomona College in with early studies in geology and then earning a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of California, Berkeley in While at Cal, he studied under George Louderback and was initiated into Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity which started as a mining engineering fraternity and maintained a strong affinity for geology and geological engineering students.

Much of his early work in oceanography took p