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| Mon, 20th Apr 2020 19:19:00 |
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Coronavirus: Sir John Houghton dies of suspected Covid-19 |
A physicist from north Wales who was recognised for his work on climate change has died with suspected coronavirus, his granddaughter said.
Sir John Houghton, from Denbighshire, died on Wednesday aged 88.
He accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the honour with Al Gore.
Sir John spent his final years living by the sea in Wales, his granddaughter Hannah Malcolm said on Twitter.
She said it was her grandfather's "favourite place".
"He slowly lost a lot of memories and faculties to dementia, but the sea remained with him. A good life," she said.
The Denbighshire-born climate change scientist, who described global warming as "a weapon of mass destruction", was co-chair of the IPCC when it shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sir John went to Rhyl Grammar School, where his dad taught.
He was so capable at physics he got the highest marks in Wales and won a scholarship for Oxford University aged just 16 years old, where he studied maths and physics.
In 1958 he became an Oxford professor, later becoming chair of the World Climate Research Programme.
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