Mark Z Jacobson

Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University. He has published seven books and 190 papers. He received the 2018 Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022, he was ranked the world's most impactful scientist in the field of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and the sixth-most impactful scientist in the field of Energy among those first publishing past 1985. In 2023, he was named one of Worth...See more

Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University. He has published seven books and 190 papers. He received the 2018 Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022, he was ranked the world's most impactful scientist in the field of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and the sixth-most impactful scientist in the field of Energy among those first publishing past 1985. In 2023, he was named one of Worth Magazine's top 100 people globally 'who have made an impact on the world this year.' He was an expert witness in the first US climate case to have won at trial, Held v. Montana, and the first world climate case to have settled, Navahine v. Hawaii. He has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and cofounded The Solutions Project. His work is the scientific basis of the Green New Deal and 100 percent renewable energy laws worldwide. See less