Abstract
Susan Solomon was born in Chicago and pursued her studies in chemistry first at the Illinois Institute of Technology and later at the University of California in Berkeley, where she became a student of Harold Johnston and first became acquainted with the unsolved problems of atmospheric chemistry. The realization in the 1970s that stratospheric ozone was both critical to life on earth and highly vulnerable to chemical destruction led to a great upsurge of interest in the chemistry of the middle atmosphere, the region lying between the tropopause and the base of the main ionosphere at about 100 km altitude. Susan quickly became deeply involved in the highly complex task of modeling the chemical composition of the middle atmosphere and completed her thesis work at NCAR [National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.] in collaboration with Paul Crutzen. Her work soon led her to confront the fundamental problem of the interaction between atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. It is in providing us with greater insight into this question that Susan has made her major contributions.
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