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Walter Orr Roberts (August 20, 1915 – March 12, 1990) was an American astronomer and atmospheric physicist, as well as an educator, philanthropist, and builder. He founded the National Center for Atmospheric Research and took a personal research interest for many years in the study of influences of the Sun on weather and climate.
Mar 14, 1990 · Walter Orr Roberts, the founder of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who was one of the first scientists to warn that technology was changing the earth's climate, died of cancer on...
Walter Orr Roberts. A trailblazer, Walter Orr Roberts set up the High Altitude Observatory in 1940 on the Continental Divide at Climax, Colorado, which evolved from a one-man operation affiliated with the Harvard College Observatory to a research division of NCAR.
Walter Orr Roberts was a renowned scientist, leader, and pioneer in the fields of solar-terrestrial study, astronomy, and climate science.
Walter Orr Roberts died on March 12, 1990 at his home in Boulder, Colorado. Although trained as a scientist, he was best known as a humanist, teacher, and statesman, and although he was seventy-four years old, his fame and influence were still expanding at the time of his death.
Internationally celebrated solar astronomer and professor of Astro-Geophysics, Walter Orr Roberts (1915-1990), was a principal figure in many scientific developments in Colorado.
Sep 1, 1992 · Walter Orr Roberts was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts on August 20, 1915, and died in Boulder, Colorado on March 12,1990, at age 74. In 1938 he was graduated from Amherst College in western Massachusetts and that year entered graduate school at Harvard.
