Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Jun 7, 1950(1950-06-07)
Age	74
Birthplace	Oldenburg
Country	Germany
Birth City	Lower Saxony
Horoscope	Gemini

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Biography

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on June 7, 1950 in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Hans Joachim “John” Schellnhuber, born 7 June 1950, is a German atmospheric physicist and climatologist. He was also the founding director of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a former chair of German Advisory Council on Global Change.

Schellnhuber was the research director of Tyndall Centre, England from 2001 to 2005 and then became a visiting professor at Oxford University.

As one of the leading climate scientists worldwide, he has been a consultant to the former President of the European Union Commission, José Manuel Barroso. In 2007, he was appointed Chief Government Advisor on Climate and Related Issues during Germany’s EU Council Presidency and G8 Presidency. Schellnhuber offers scientific insights to business leaders, as a member of the Climate Change Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank and chair of the governing board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s Climate Knowledge and Innovation Communities (EIT Climate KIC). In 2012, he was the lead-author of a report commissioned by the World Bank on possible impacts of a 4 degrees Celsius warming towards the end of the 21st century. This report received a lot of attention worldwide. That same year, Schellnhuber presented the keynote at the gala dinner that opened the high-level segment of the world climate summit COP18 in Doha, Qatar. In the presence of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and UNFCCC’s boss Christiana Figueres, a few days later Schellnhuber signed an agreement with the Qatar Foundation to jointly create a Climate change research institute in Qatar – a remarkable step as the country’s wealth for decades had been based on exporting fossil fuels.

In 2007, Schellnhuber started “A Nobel Cause – Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability” in Potsdam, bringing together Nobel Laureates from all disciplines with leading sustainability scientists. In 2009, this event took place in London and in 2011 in Stockholm, where the UN general secretary’s High Level Panel on Sustainability came to the meeting to receive a memorandum that was fed into the Rio+20 conference in 2012.

In 1995 Schellnhuber suggested the 2 degree Celsius guardrail against global warming. This was first adopted by the German government, the European Union, and then by all governments around the world following the Copenhagen agreement in 2009.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Net Worth

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is one of the richest Physicist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Schellnhuber studied mathematics as well as physics. He received a doctorate (qualification for office in theoretical Physics) from the University of Regensburg in 1981. He was appointed a postdoctoral fellow in 1981 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. He worked across the corridor from Walter Kohn, who later became his academic supervisor.

He was commissioned to establish the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in 1991. In 1993, he became its director. This allowed it to grow from zero to one the most renowned climate research institutions in the world. It now has more than 300 employees and uses an interdisciplinary approach.

In 2002, Schellnhuber received the Royal Society’s Wolfson Research Merit Award In 2004 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed him to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences (US) appointed him as a member. He was awarded the German Environment Prize in

2007. In that same year, he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

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In 2017, Schellnhuber was awarded the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation.

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Hans Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.