Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen on his life, his career in research, and his views on the Anthropocene idea..
“A huge variety of possibilities”: Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen on his life, his career in research, and his views on the Anthropocene idea
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1959-1974.
Crutzen, you grew up under dire circumstances in Amsterdam in World War II…
Oh yes, I have some bad memories of the wartime. In May 1940 Holland was occupied by German troops. Our school building was turned into barracks for the Germans.
The situation was especially difficult for my mother. She had all her relatives, including her mother, in Germany. Every evening we heard the sound of Allied bombers flying over Holland towards Germany to drop their bombs on cities.
So in addition to our lives we feared for our family members in Germany.
Paul West (3 folders) J.