Ingeborg Levin (1953-2024)
成果类型：
Editorial Material
署名作者：
Vogel, Felix; Hammer, Samuel
署名单位：
Environment & Climate Change Canada; Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
刊物名称：
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN：
0036-12249
DOI：
10.1126/science.ado8559
发表日期：
2024-03-29
页码：
1417-1417
关键词：
摘要：
Ingeborg Levin, groundbreaking physicist who helped quantify the carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions, died on 10 February. She was 70. Ingeborg established high-quality long-term measurements to identify the radiocarbon present in carbon dioxide and inform estimates of carbon fluxes. In the late 1970s, climate change and greenhouse gases were far from a mainstream interest, but Ingeborg immediately recognized their importance and the crucial role science would play in informing policy. She also realized early on that the carbon-14 (C-14) introduced into the atmosphere by nuclear weapons testing presented a singular opportunity to understand how carbon moves from the atmosphere into other carbon reservoirs, such as the biosphere, soils, and oceans.