Top 20 Environmentalist celebrities in the world
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Environmentalist celebrities [Updated February 5, 2023].
Rachel Carson was born
on May 27, 1907
in Springdale, United States.
She received the U.S. National Book Award in 1951 for her bestseller The Sea Around Us, which is a poetic meditation on the science and history of the sea.
James Lovelock was born
on July 26, 1919
in England.
A detector he created showed human-made pollutants in the atmosphere, inspiring
Rachel Carson's famous book, Silent Spring.
Braden Allenby was born
on December 29, 1950
in Highland Park, United States.
He worked as an attorney for the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Communications Commission.
William Bartram was born
on April 20, 1739
in United States.
His famous work, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, etc., was finished during the 1780s.
Tim Flannery was born
on January 28, 1956
in Australia.
His numerous honors include the Australian Humanist of the Year prize, the Centenary of Federation Medal, and the Colin Roderick Award.
Milutin Milankovic was born
on May 28, 1879
in Croatia.
The European Geophysical Society's Milutin Milankovitch Medal, awarded to those who have made significant contributions to climatology, was founded in his honor in 1993.
James Hansen was born
on March 29, 1941
in United States.
He published numerous scientific papers about the atmosphere of the planet of Venus.
David Mayer Derothschild was born
on August 25, 1978
in England.
He invented a sustainable ship boat in San Francisco called the Plastiki.
Charles Keeling was born
on April 20, 1928
in United States.
In 2002 President
George W. Bush presented him with the National Medal of Science.
Adolph Murie was born
on September 6, 1899
in United States.
Naturalist who studied wolves in their native Arctic habitat and became instrumental in the forming the Denali National Park and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His book, A Naturalist in Alaska, won the John Burroughs Medal in 1963.
In the 1950s he led the opposition to a proposed highway and a tourist hotel in the interior of Mount McKinley National Park.
Bill Mckibben was born
on December 8, 1960
in Palo Alto, United States.
He was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013 as well as the Sophie Prize.
Lester R. Brown was born
on March 28, 1934
in United States.
Environmental analyst who founded the Earth Policy Institute in Washington D.C. Lester R. Brown is the author or co-author of over 50 books on global environmental issues including "Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity", which was released in 2012.
Lester R. Brown published the book Plan B 4.0 which became required reading at Cal State University Chico.
Trofim Lysenko was born
on September 29, 1898
in Ukraine.
Remembered for directing the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Trofim Lysenko also founded a political and scientific movement known as Lysenkoism that resulted in Soviet government control of agriculture and genetics research.
In the early 1960s, several prominent Soviet scientists, including physicists Pyotr Kapitsa and Vitaly Ginzburg, publicly branded Lysenko's politically-motivated agricultural studies as pseudoscience.
Gregory S. Forbes was born
on August 22, 1950
in United States.
He was on the development team of the Enhanced Fujita Scale which replaced the Fujita Scale in 2007.
Gina Lopez was born
on December 27, 1953
in Quezon City, Philippines.
She was the recipient of the UNESCO Kalinga Award for her work on the educational program Sineskwela.
Phillip Law was born
on April 21, 1912
in Australia.
He was a senior research officer on ANARE in Antarctica for many summers.
Theodore Miller Edison was born
on July 10, 1898
in United States.
He worked as technical director or research and engineering for Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Kim Soon-kwon was born
on May 1, 1945
in South Korea.
In 1998, he founded and became director of the International Foundation of the Corn.
Henry Paul Hansen was born
on April 28, 1907
in United States.
He began teaching at Oregon State University in 1939 and he published his seminal work, Postglacial Forest Succession, Climate, and Chronology in the Pacific Northwest, in 1947.
Henry Baker was born
on May 8, 0
in England.
He contributed many of his memoirs to the Transactions of the Royal Society.
