2007
Kirk R. Smith among contributing authors who share in IPCC's Nobel honors
On Oct. 12, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." The authors who contributed to the IPCC's scientific reports share in the Nobel Peace Prize honors.
Kirk R. Smith, professor of global environmental health and Brian and Jennifer Maxwell Endowed Chair in Mothers' and Children's Health, was a contributing author for sections in two of the three main reports, Working Groups II and III (impacts and mitigation).
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, said, "This is an honor that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the work of the IPCC, which alone has resulted in enormous prestige for this organization and the remarkable effectiveness of the message that it contains."