Brian Hoskins awarded Gold Medal by International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, FRS, has been awarded the IUGG Gold Medal for "his scientific contributions that have been pioneering and profound in almost all aspects of the atmospheric and climatological sciences, with strong linkages to IUGG and its Associations", in the words of the jury's citation. "Professor Hoskins has over a period of four and half decades pioneered and been at the forefront of almost every major development in atmospheric dynamics. These developments have opened up strikingly elegant new vistas, and purposeful and practical techniques and approaches, for this increasingly important and significant sub-discipline of the Earth Sciences", Huw Davies (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) tells about his colleague. Read the full citation

Brian Hoskins has been associated with the Department of Meteorology for almost 40 years. He was appointed Reader in atmospheric modelling in 1976, Professor of meteorology in 1981, and later served as Head of the Department of Meteorology (1990- 1996). From 2000 to 2010 Brian Hoskins held a Royal Society Research Professorship. The Department of Meteorology will later this year hold a two-day seminar programme to commemorate Brian's 70th birthday as part of the Department's 50th anniversary celebrations.