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Famous Jamaicans
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Professor A. Anthony Chen, PhD, MSc, BSc, BA
An Interesting Truth
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| Most of us are more than aware
that Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. Books had been written, a
documentary had been made, an Oscar had been won. What many
people don't know however is that the IPCC included a team from
the UWI: Dr Leonard Nurse, Dr John Agard and team leader, Prof.
Anthony Chen. Dr Nurse is
Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Resource Management and
Environmental Studies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados), Dr Agard is
the Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Life Sciences, St Augustine
Campus (Trinidad & Tobago) and Prof Chen is the retired
Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Mona Campus
(Jamaica).
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Abraham Anthony Chen was born in
Jamaica in 1938. In 1960 he was awarded a BSc in Physics and Mathematics
from Boston College. He then went on to do an MA in Teaching
from Harvard on a Sloan Fellowship. In 1967 he received his MSc
in Physics from the University of Maryland. He returned to
Jamaica and became a lecturer in the Department of Physics at
the UWI in 1968. In 1972 he received his PhD in Physics from the
UWI. In 1977 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in his
department and in 2001 he was given the Chair in Applied
Atmospheric Physics.
In 1997 he was appointed
Jamaica's representative to the Inter-American Institute for
Global Change Research and his work from that time to date deals
mostly with climate change and how it affects the Caribbean.
During his career, Prof. Chen has
written over forty papers and contributed to over thirty books. |
| He is a Fellow of
the Royal Meteorological Society, a Member of the American
Meteorological Society, a Member of the Jamaican Society of
Scientists and Technologists, a Member of the American
Association of Physics Teachers and a Member of the
International Solar Energy Society. In 2005 he received the
Musgrave Medal for his work in Climate Studies. |
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