A former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and an early advocate of climate change research, Dr. Firor died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech in 1949 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1954, writing his thesis on the subject of cosmic rays. After several years of research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, he moved to Boulder in 1961 to be director of the High Altitude Observatory, which became a branch of NCAR in the same year. Firor was appointed as director of NCAR in 1968 and executive director in 1974. He served as chairman of board of Environmental Defense from 1975 to 1980 and was a board member for 30 years. He was a trustee of the World Resources Institute and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, and the Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs.
A former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and an early advocate of climate change research, Dr. Firor died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech in 1949 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1954, writing his thesis on the subject of cosmic rays. After several years of research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, he moved to Boulder in 1961 to be director of the High Altitude Observatory, which became a branch of NCAR in the same year. Firor was appointed as director of NCAR in 1968 and executive director in 1974. He served as chairman of board of Environmental Defense from 1975 to 1980 and was a board member for 30 years. He was a trustee of the World Resources Institute and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, and the Hubert Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs.
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