Professor Will Happer discussing his Life as a Scientist
Born in India he made his way as a young lad to America, dodging German submarines on the way. He was inspired to become a physicist. After a degree at Princeton he went to Columbia. His work with the sodium laser to bring forth the adaptive optics system to correct for real-time atmospheric wave front turbulence in the 1980s, gave him credibility in the defense efforts, and he then became Director of Energy Research. His review of many projects funded by the government put him in a position to review the climate research of that day, in the 1992 – 93 period. His experiences lead him to question certain climate physics of that era. Leaving that he went back to Princeton to continue his research interests.
Working on a CO2 laser gave him great opportunity to understand the physics of CO2 and the quantum mechanics of this gas. Realizing how questionable the alarmist claims for CO2 were becoming, he then turned towards commenting on this climate theory, which continues to this day.
This is a rare opportunity to hear the experiences of a scientist not driven by politics or money and how this shaped his current views.
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