Background
North was born in Sweetwater, Tennessee to Sanford and Marjorie Hill N. He grew up in nearby Knoxville and received his Bachelor"s Degree in physics from the University of Tennessee.
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Gerald North
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In 1966, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
His interests include climate change using simplified climate models. After a two year post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania, he obtained a tenure track position at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis leading to full professor He spent 1974-1975 as a Senior Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
He moved to National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center in 1978 where he was the initial proposer and first Study Scientist for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.
He joined Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1986. In 2005 to 2006 he chaired a United States National Research Council committee investigating surface temperature reconstructions for the last 2,000 years, set up at the request of Representative Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the United States. House of Representatives Committee on Science.
Their report, published in July 2006, is known as the North Report. He is the 2008 recipient of the Jule Charney Award of the American Meteorological Society.
