John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie by Susan Engle

Since 2002, he has been Professor Emeritus of the Department of Chemistry and Fellow Emeritus of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. In 2005, he assumed leadership of 2B Technologies as President. After twenty-five years of service, he retired from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2002 and joined 2B Technologies as Vice President. Sloan Fellowship in 1979 and John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986.īirks co-founded 2B Technologies, a company specializing in the development of instruments for environmental and atmospheric measurements, with Dr. He was promoted to full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at CU Boulder in 1984 and served as Chair of the department during 1995-1998.

In 1977, he accepted the positions of Associate Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder where he could collaborate more closely with scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Research and career īirks began his academic career in 1974 when he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He carried out his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley where he completed his MS (1970) and PhD (1974) in physical chemistry under the direction of Professor Harold S.

Early life and education īirks received his BS (1968) degree in chemistry with high honors from the University of Arkansas. At 2B Technologies he served as President during 2005-2020 and currently serves as Chief Scientist. His most recent awards include the 2019 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for his contributions to atmospheric chemistry and the 2022 Future of Life Award for discovery of the nuclear winter effect.Īs an entrepreneur, Birks co-founded the two technology companies, 2B Technologies and InDevR. Birks (born 10 December 1946, in Vinita, Oklahoma, USA) is an American atmospheric chemist and entrepreneur who is best known for co-discovery with Paul Crutzen of the potential atmospheric effects of nuclear war known as nuclear winter. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

John Birks &quot;Dizzy&quot; Gillespie by Susan Engle

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie by Susan Engle