The Bumpy Path to Climate Change: Pioneering for a Sustainable World

Toufiq A. Siddiqi was born in Hyderabad, India, and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, England. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. In 1967 he and his wife Ulrike emigrated to the United States where he continued his research at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

During this time, he began to shift his focus from physics to environmental sciences, driven by the developing public environme...