Researching Owen Toon
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1123 people with the Toon surname? In that year Toon was ranked number 2480 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Owen means "Form of EVAN. young warrior" and is of Celtic origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Owen Toon and the Toon Family Tree
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 1863 people with the Toon surname in the UK? Toon is now ranked number 2433 for popularity in the UK. |
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Toon surname in the USA? Toon is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Owen Toon
Owen Brian Toon (born May 26, 1947 in Bethesda, Maryland) is a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. He is a fellow at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received an A.B. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and a Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University in 1975 under Carl Sagan. His research interests are in cloud physics, atmospheric chemistry, and radiative transfer. He also works on comparing Earth and other planets such as Venus.
His research on the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs led to the discovery of nuclear winter due to the major decrease in temperature. The effects of nuclear winter were re-examined in a 2006 presentation at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, where Toon and colleagues found that even a regional nuclear war could prove deadly for a large number of people. They calculated that as few as fifty detonations of Hiroshima-size bombs could kill as many as twenty million people, although it would not produce a nuclear winter. The atmospheric effects of a regional nuclear war would last several years, and would be strongest at mid-latitudes, including the United States and Europe.
He was elected a fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1990, and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1992. He received the 2011 Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union.
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