Dork Sahagian

Dork Sahagian is an Armenian American climate scientist.[1] He is the Director of the Environmental Initiative at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[2] He invented a technique for calculating the Earth's air pressure in the past, based on the difference in the size of the bubbles in cooled volcanic lava. [3]

Sahagian contributed to three of four assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which on October 12, 2007 was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former vice president Al Gore.

References
  1. "Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions". Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2010-05-29. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "The battle for life on earth". United Nations Radio. May 22, 2009.
  3. Botkin-Kowacki, Eva (May 10, 2016). "Early Earth's atmosphere was quite thin. Why does it matter?". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved May 11, 2016.


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