Walter Orr Roberts Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Walter Orr Roberts (August 20, 1915 – March 12, 1990) was an American astronomer and atmospheric physicist. He received his doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University in 1943. He was the founding director of the High Altitude Observatory (HAO). Subsequently he was the founding president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and first director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He taught online for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in the mid-1980s, and also published an online weekly column entitled "Provocations" about climatology. He has the minor planet 3428 Roberts named after him. NCAR's mesa is also named after Roberts.Roberts's son is David Roberts.
With Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan, and Donald Kennedy, Dr. Roberts wrote _The Cold and the Dark_ (1984), about nuclear winter. Also, with former astronaut Russell Schweickart, he initiated Greenhouse/Glasnost, a computer dialogue on global warming between American and Soviet scientists, in 1988.
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Noted for his significant studies of the sun's activity.
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An astronomer and physicist with degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University, he founded and was appointed director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in June 1960. Dr. Roberts was a pioneer in the development of climatology and was concerned with the impact of technology on the climate, and of the climate on the progress of life on Earth.
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Dr. Roberts established the prototype of the world's largest coronagraph, or solar telescope, at University of Colorado's High Altitude Observatory in 1940. He also directed the program on food, climate, and the world's future for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies from 1974 to 1981.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Harnessing the Sun
1980
scientific advisor
Survival of Spaceship Earth
1972
Documentary scientific advisor
Our Mr. Sun
1956
TV Movie scientific consultant - as Dr. Walter Orr Roberts
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Survival of Spaceship Earth
1972
Documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Survival of Spaceship Earth (1972) as Miscellaneous Crew
$600,000