Richard Lindzen
Richard Siegmund Lindzen (born February 8, 1940) is an American atmospheric physicist known for his work in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, atmospheric tides, and ozone photochemistry. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books. From 1983 until his retirement in 2013, he was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a lead author of Chapter 7, "Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks," of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Third Assessment Report on climate change. He has criticized the scientific consensus about climate change and what he has called "climate alarmism."
Richard E. Berendzen
Berendzen had not worked for three years, but he was still listed as a tenured member of the faculty at American University. Some estimates put the amount to buy out the rest of his contract at $1 million, a cost that student, faculty, and staff at the University were loathed to spend. Richard approached the Board of Trustees about going back to AU as a member of the regular faculty. The University agreed and he served in that role until he retired in August 2006 as Professor Emeritus of Physics.