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Robert Socolow

Robert Socolow is professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. From 2000 to 2019, he and Steve Pacala were the co-principal investigators of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, a twenty-five-year (2001-2025) project supported by BP. His best-known paper, with Pacala, was in Science (2004): “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies.” Socolow is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include the 2009 Frank Kreith Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the 2005 Axelson Johnson Commemorative Lecture award from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences of Sweden (IVA). In 2003 he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society.


Articles by Robert Socolow

artist's conception Miami sea rise

Contending with climate change: the next 25 years

By Robert Socolow | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Climate change and Destiny Studies: Creating our near and far futures

By Robert Socolow | Climate Change

An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight

By Robert Socolow, Thomas Rosenbaum, Lynn Eden, Rod Ewing, Alexander Glaser, James E. Hansen, Sivan Kartha, Edward “Rocky” Kolb, Lawrence M. Krauss, Leon Lederman, Ramamurti Rajaraman, M. V. Ramana, Robert Rosner, Jennifer Sims, Richard C. J. Somerville, Elizabeth J. Wilson | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Wedges reaffirmed

By Robert Socolow | Climate Change, Opinion

Reflections on Fukushima: A time to mourn, to learn, and to teach

By Robert Socolow | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Reflections on Fukushima: A time to mourn, to learn, and to teach

By Robert Socolow | Nuclear Energy, Special Topics

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