SLAC Director Emeritus BURTON RICHTER will be in Washington, D.C., today, Dec. 2, to receive the 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century.
The award comes with a $10,000 prize, given annually by the academic honor society for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. Its purpose is to encourage literate and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics.
In the book, Richter, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has served on many U.S. and international review committees on climate change and energy issues, assesses proposals—ranging from the sensible to the senseless—for averting the consequences of global warming, and allows readers to draw their own conclusions.
Read the full announcement on the Phi Beta Kappa Society website.
