Gilbert Plass

Gilbert Norman Plass (1921?-2004) was a Canadian-born physicist living most of his life in the United States. He graduated from Harvard University in 1941 and earned a Ph.D in physics from Princeton University in 1947. Later, he became a professor at Texas A&M University. In 1956 and onwards Plass published a series of articles on the effects of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and the potential implications of an increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for global warming. The articles were partly based on advanced calculations of the absorption of infrared radiation, and Plass made use of early electronic computers.

References

*Plass, G.N., 1956, Infrared Radiation in the Atmosphere, American J. Physics 24, p. 303-21.
*Plass, G.N., 1956, Carbon Dioxide and the Climate, American Scientist 44, p. 302-16.
*Plass, G.N., 1956, Effect of Carbon Dioxide Variations on Climate, American J. Physics 24, p. 376-87.
*Plass, G.N., 1956, The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change, Tellus VIII, 2. (1956), p. 140-154.
*Plass, G.N., 1959, Carbon Dioxide and Climate, Scientific American, July, p. 41-47.