Georgii Sergeyevich Golitsyn (Russian: Георгий Сергеевич Голицын) (born January 23, 1935 in Moscow) is a prominent Russian scientist in the field of Atmospheric Physics, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (later of Russia), Editor-in-Chief of Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, ISSN 0001-4338 Since 1990 Director of the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia. is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... This article is about the profession. ... Atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere. ... Original headquarters of the Imperial Academy of Sciences - the Kunstkammer in Saint Petersburg. ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ...

A scion of the Galitzine princely family, he is the recipient of the RAS A.A. Friedman prize (1990) for his works on “Study of the General Circulation of Atmosphere and Convection.” In 1996 he was awarded Demidov Prize for his geostudies. In 2005 he was awarded Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences [1]. Academician Golitsyn is founding member of Sigma Xi Moscow. Peter I permitted the Galitzines to incorporate the emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into their coat of arms. ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... Atmospheric circulation is the large-scale movement of air, and the means (together with the ocean circulation, which is smaller [1]) by which heat is distributed on the surface of the Earth. ... Convection in the most general terms refers to the internal movement of currents within fluids (i. ... Coat of arms of Prince Anatole Demidoff. ... Alfred Wegeners theory of continental drift was widely ridiculed in his day Alfred Lothar Wegener (Berlin, November 1, 1880 – Greenland, November 2 or 3, 1930) was a German interdisciplinary scientist and meteorologist, who became famous for his theory of continental drift (Kontinentalverschiebung or die Verschiebung der Kontinente in his... Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, founded in 1886, is a non-profit honor society of about 62,000 scientists and engineers elected on the basis of their research achievements or potential. ...

See also

• Nuclear winter

Nuclear winter is a hypothetical global climate condition that is predicted to be a possible outcome of a large-scale nuclear war. ...

External links

• Brief Scientific Resumé
• Brief Scientific Resumé (in Russian)
• On the 70th Birthday of Academician Georgii Sergeevich Golitsyn
• A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics,RAS
• Sigma Xi Moscow, Russia - International Partner Chapter
• photo of Academician Golitsyn (on the left)