John T. Houghton

Sir John Theodore Houghton  (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist. He was the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC). He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford. He also was a Director General at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

Houghton died of COVID-19 on 15 April 2020, aged 88.From the archives: Interview: Sir John Houghton, meteorologist, climate-change expert

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