James G. Anderson
James Gilbert Anderson is the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University, a position he has held since 1982. From 1998 to 2001, he was the chairman of Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences], the American Geophysical Union, the National [Academy of Sciences], and the American [Philosophical Society]. His awards include the 1993 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the 1996 Arthur L. [Day Prize and Lectureship] and the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. In 2012, Anderson won a Smithsonian magazine American Ingenuity Award in Physical Sciences.
Anderson is currently working on the development of a solar powered aircraft for climate science and atmospheric observation.