Tihomir Novakov

Tihomir Novakov
Personal details
Born	Serbia
Spouse(s)	Marica Cvetković
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Profession	Physicist

Tihomir Novakov, Ph.D known also as Tica Novakov (born March 16, 1929) is an American physicist. As a scientist, Novakov is known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research.

Education and career

After graduating from the University of Belgrade with a PhD in Nuclear Physics, he taught at the University of Belgrade and worked at the Vinca Nuclear Institute. Novakov immigrated to the United States in 1963 and began working as a research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He later founded an Aerosol Research Group, which traveled the world conducting ground breaking research on climate change. Dr. Novakov is a distinguished member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Publications

Novakov has had his work published hundreds of times in peer-reviewed journals. In October, 1974 Science Magazine published Sulfates as Pollution Particulates: Catalytic Formation on Carbon (Soot) Particles, which Novakov co-wrote with S. G. Chang and A. B. Harker.^[1] In 1982, Real-time measurement of the absorption coefficient of aerosol particles was published by Applied Optics, which he co-wrote with A.D.A. Hansen and H. Rosen.^[2] In 2008 he published a paper for LBNL entitled Response of California temperature to regional anthropogenic aerosol changes.^[3]

Personal life

Novakov was born in Sombor, Serbia in 1929. His father was a veterinarian and his mother was a homemaker. While in high school, Novakov began to build x-ray tubes and radios, furthering his scientific knowledge on his own. Novakov has been married to Marica Cvetković for over 50 years. The couple have a daughter, Anna Novakov, now an Art History professor at Saint Mary's College of California.

References

1. ^ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/186/4160/259
2. ^ http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-21-17-3060
3. ^ http://repositories.cdlib.org/lbnl/LBNL-451E/

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Name	Novakov, Tihomir
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Date of birth	March 16, 1929
Place of birth	Serbia
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