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Cicerone, Ralph J

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Personal name headingCicerone, Ralph J.
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Variant(s)Cicerone, R. J. (Ralph J.)
Associated placeIrvine (Calif.) Illinois
LocatedShort Hills (N.J.)
Birth date1943
Death date2016-11-05
Place of birthNew Castle (Pa.)
Place of deathShort Hills (N.J.)
Field of activityAtmospheric chemistry
AffiliationUniversity of California, Irvine
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Found inOCLC 4283890: The ozone/fluorocarbon controversy, 1975 (hdg.: Cicerone, Ralph (Ralph J.); usage: Ralph J. Cicerone)
OCLC, June 9, 2003 (hdgs.: Cicerone, Ralph; Cicerone, R. J., Cicerone, Ralph (Ralph J.); usage: Ralph J. Cicerone, Ralph Cicerone, R.J. Cicerone)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 7, 2016 (Ralph J. Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist who helped identify the potentially catastrophic threat to the planet's ozone layer from man-made chemicals, then served as chancellor of the University of California at Irvine and as president of the National Academy of Sciences, died Nov. 5 [2016]; he was 73; Dr. Cicerone, who stepped down from his post at the academy this summer after 11 years but retained a busy schedule of speaking engagements, died unexpectedly at his home in Short Hills, N.J.; Ralph John Cicerone was born in 1943 in the rural western Pennsylvania town of New Castle; received a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1970; in 1989 he joined the UC-Irvine faculty and became chancellor there in 1998; elected president of the National Academy in 2005)