Career
In 1956, he developed a mathematical model which could realistically depict monthly and seasonal patterns in the troposphere, which became the first successful General circulation model of climate. He was awarded a Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) along with Joseph Smagorinsky in 2003. Phillips was born in 1923.
He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947 with a Bachelor of Surgery and in 1951 with a Doctor of Philosophy