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Paul J. Crutzen was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 3 December He came from a modest multicultural background as his Dutch father worked as a.!
Prof. Dr. Paul J. Crutzen > Research Profile
by Luisa Bonolis
Paul Joseph Crutzen
Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Mario J.
Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland
"for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone".
From civil engineering to atmospheric chemistry
Paul Joseph Crutzen was born in Amsterdam in His mother was of mixed German and Polish origin and his father had relatives in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Thus, from both parents, he inherited a cosmopolitan view of the world. When he was seven, the Netherlands was overrun by the German army and his six years of elementary school largely overlapped with the 2nd World War. He survived the horrible last year of war during which so many children died, and in , after a successful entrance exam, he entered high school to be prepared for University entrance.
In , he finished school with natural sciences as his focal subject and with a strong interest