Former NCSU professor accepts Nobel with Gore
Published: Mon, Dec. 10, 2007 12:22PM
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closeRajendra Pachauri, who earned three graduate degrees and taught for a year at N.C. State University, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The United Nations panel of scientists and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore were cited by the Nobel committee for drawing international attention to the potential perils of global warming.
Pachauri gave a sober, statistics-filled account of the possible consequences of climate change. He said the prize committee's decision to award the Nobel to the panel "can be seen as a clarion call" for the world to face up to the gravity of the situation.
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Pachauri, 67, is director-general of the Energy Research Institute, a nonprofit scientific and policy research organization based in New Delhi that focuses on global warming.
In 1972, he received a master's degree in industrial engineering at NCSU, and a joint doctorate in industrial engineering and economics in 1974. In 1974 and 1975 he was an assistant professor at N.C. State, and he later was a visiting professor in the economics department.
Since 2002, he has led the international panel on climate change, which is considered the world's foremost authority on assessing global warming's impact.
NCSU awarded Pachauri its distinguished alumnus award this year.
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