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'''R. E. (Ted) Munn''' was a Canadian climatologist and meteorologist. |
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'''R. E. (Ted) Munn''' is a grandson of Stuart Jenkins, whose claim to fame was a paper he published in the 1890s in Scientific American about Charles Darwin’s theories of the origin of species. Young Ted spent his summers with his grandparents in the 1930s, and lunchtime always included a lecture on the natural sciences. As a reward for being such a good listener, Stuart gave Ted a book that Stuart had won years earlier as Dux of Form at Lower Canada College, Montreal – The History of the Inductive Sciences (1847) by William Whewell. |
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==Early life and education== |
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Munn is a grandson of Stuart Jenkins, a well-known writer in the 1890s for Scientific American, whose frequent lectures about natural sciences helped develop his interest in the inductive sciences. |
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| ⚫ | In the late 1950s, Ted registered as a PhD student at the University of Michigan. |
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| ⚫ | Munn studied at McMaster University. Upon graduation in 1941, hed became a weather forecaster, spending 1943 to 1949 in Gander, Newfoundland where he briefed Ferry Command and other wartime pilots on their way to Britain.<ref name="alumni">http://alumni.os.mcmaster.ca/s/1439/index2.aspx?sid=1439&gid=1&pgid=1668</ref> |
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Ted is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and he has published several books and many scientific articles on environmental topics. His personal contacts with environmental leaders in his field date back to the 1960s.<ref name="alumni" /> If his grandfather’s luncheon conversations are included, his knowledge of historical developments in the environmental sciences dates back much farther. |
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| ⚫ | In the late 1950s, Ted registered as a PhD student at the University of Michigan. At the time of his graduation in the early 1960s, he was the only Canadian meteorologist with training in air pollution. He served on several international committies, including WMO and ICSU{{what}}. He spent a winter in Stockholm working with Bert Bolin on the acid rain issue, and for 17 years he was editor-in-chief of the SCOPE series of 60 books relating to interdisciplinary environmental topics.<ref>http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-development/news/in-memoriam-munn/</ref> |
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In 1983, he was appointed head of the environmental group at theInternational Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.<ref name="library.utoronto">http://www.library.utoronto.ca/iip/journal/Profiles/munn.htm</ref> Then in 1990, he returned to the University of Toronto, where he taught a course on Global Environment Change, and edited a 5-volume Encyclopedia, Global Environmental Change (John Wiley, UK.) Each volume is about 750 pages in length.<ref name="library.utoronto" /> |
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Munn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and he has published several books and many scientific articles on environmental topics. |
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R. E. (Ted) Munn was a Canadian climatologist and meteorologist.
Early life and education
Munn is a grandson of Stuart Jenkins, a well-known writer in the 1890s for Scientific American, whose frequent lectures about natural sciences helped develop his interest in the inductive sciences.
Munn studied at McMaster University. Upon graduation in 1941, hed became a weather forecaster, spending 1943 to 1949 in Gander, Newfoundland where he briefed Ferry Command and other wartime pilots on their way to Britain.[1]
In the late 1950s, Ted registered as a PhD student at the University of Michigan. At the time of his graduation in the early 1960s, he was the only Canadian meteorologist with training in air pollution. He served on several international committies, including WMO and ICSU[clarification needed]. He spent a winter in Stockholm working with Bert Bolin on the acid rain issue, and for 17 years he was editor-in-chief of the SCOPE series of 60 books relating to interdisciplinary environmental topics.[2]
In 1983, he was appointed head of the environmental group at theInternational Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.[3] Then in 1990, he returned to the University of Toronto, where he taught a course on Global Environment Change, and edited a 5-volume Encyclopedia, Global Environmental Change (John Wiley, UK.) Each volume is about 750 pages in length.[3]
Munn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and he has published several books and many scientific articles on environmental topics.