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Nature Geoscience 1, 88 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo119

Bert Bolin: A natural leader

Heike Langenberg

It took almost two decades after Bert Bolin became the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 for the panel to be recognized with a Nobel Peace Prize. But at least Bolin, who died on 30 December 2007 aged 82, lived to see the process that he had started with his pioneering work be honoured earlier this year.