Charles David Keeling and the story of atmospheric CO2 measurements.

Anal Chem

Michelson Laboratory, China Lake, California, USA.

Published: October 2010

When he was a postdoc in geochemistry at Caltech, Charles David Keeling found himself ideally prepared for the moment when funding for the International Geophysical Year enabled him to design and build a CO(2) monitoring station on Mauna Loa in Hawaii in 1957. He applied rigorous analytical procedures to a geophysical study with enormous implications for humanity.

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