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Director of Centre for Global Change Science
University of Toronto physicist Dick Peltier is the winner of one of five 2013 Killam Prizes, given in honour of his career achievement in science.
The $100,000 prize from the Canada Council for the Arts recognizes his pioneering scholarship, which has shaped our understanding of Earth’s interconnected systems—and of the threat we face due to global warming.
Peltier has been a leader in the establishment of the interdisciplinary field of Earth System Science.
