Eric Wolff

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Eric William Wolff, FRS (born 5 June 1957) is a British climatologist, glaciologist, and academic. Since 2013, he has been Royal Society Research Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. [1] [2]

Honours

In 2009, he was awarded the Louis Agassiz Medal by the European Geosciences Union. The medal is awarded 'in recognition of [an individual's] outstanding scientific contribution to the study of the cryosphere on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system'. [3] In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the UK's most senior learned society for science. [4] In 2012, he was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London. [5] In 2020, he was awarded the Richardson Medal by the International Glaciological Society along with Christina Hulbe. [6]

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