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Professor Emeritus Anthony Chen is an Atmospheric Physicist who was a member of the international team awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for efforts made to increase and disseminate greater knowledge of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. Professor Anthony Chen's career started at Boston College where he earned a BSc in Physics and Mathematics. He went on to further his education at Harvard where he earned a MA in teaching and gained teaching experience in high school teaching in the USA. His passion for Physics brought him to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His thesis as a graduate research student was surrounding the uppermost layers of the atmosphere focusing on the ionospheric plasma using data from the Goddard Space Flight Center and he earned his M.Sc. based on this thesis. Professor Chen has an extensive list of publications ranging from, book chapters, technical reports, and journal articles to conference proceedings. He has received multiple awards and accolades for his contribution to science, as well as nation building. He helped establish the Climate Studies Group in the Department of Physics and continued to assist with its work including supervising graduate students, even after his retirement.