Veerabhadran Ramanathan Wins Crafoord Prize 2026

Award

Crafoord Prize in Geosciences

Awarded By

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Contributions

• Climate change research
• Atmospheric brown clouds
• Aerosols
• Super-pollutants
• CFCs and global warming

Important Discovery

In 1975, he showed that CFCs trap heat up to 10,000 times more effectively than CO₂.

UPSC Theme

Climate Science