Tim Palmer CBE FRS — Biographical Research Notes

Status: Final draft, 2026-05-20. Source-checked across Wikipedia, Royal Society, NAS, ECMWF festschrift pages, EGU citations, AMS records, Jesus College Oxford, Bristol honorary-degree citation, Manifold interview transcript, and Palmer’s contribution to the David Deutsch 70th-birthday Festschrift website.

Subject: Professor Timothy Noel Palmer, CBE, FRS — British (and Irish) mathematical physicist and climate physicist; architect of the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System (operational 24 November 1992); Royal Society 350th Anniversary Research Professor in Climate Physics at the University of Oxford (2010–); now Emeritus. This file is biographical only; the EPS technical work is being covered by a parallel research agent.

Important corrections to the research brief:

Palmer was not knighted in 2014. He holds a CBE awarded in the 2015 New Year Honours (“for services to science”). He is “Professor Tim Palmer,” not “Sir Tim Palmer.”
His undergraduate degree was at the University of Bristol, not Oxford. He came to Oxford only as a DPhil student.
He never did a Cambridge postdoc with Hawking — he was offered one and declined it. The Bristol honorary-degree citation that says otherwise is wrong.
He moved to Oxford in 2010 (announcement) / took up the chair on a date best reported as 2010 by Wikipedia, Royal Society, Jesus College and Oxford Physics, although one ECMWF page records the departure year as 2011.
His mother was Irish — basis of his dual UK / Irish nationality (per his own statement in the Manifold interview, and confirmed by the WMO IMO Prize 2023 release).

1. Birth and Early Life

Born: 31 December 1952 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England (Wikipedia; Wikidata; US NAS directory; Royal Society fellow page). The “1953” sometimes cited stems from his being a December 31 birth — there is no genuine source disagreement.
Place: Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in suburban south-west London (then administratively Surrey, since 1965 a Greater London borough). Post-war suburban England, period of nascent recovery and technological optimism.
Nationality: Holds dual British and Irish citizenship; his mother was Irish (Palmer’s own statement on the Manifold podcast with Steve Hsu, ep. 16). This Irish lineage is the basis for his 2023 election as Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and is mentioned in the 2023 WMO IMO Prize laureate announcement.
Parents and siblings: Not publicly documented in any biographical source consulted. The Wikipedia article and Royal Society profile are silent on his parents’ names and professions. His father is not known from public record; only the Irish maternal connection is mentioned in his own interview comments.
Secondary school: The brief asked about “Bristol grammar school” but no consulted source confirms this. Wikipedia and the Bristol honorary-degree citation note only that Palmer went to the University of Bristol — there is no mention of him attending Bristol Grammar School or any specific secondary school. Mark this NOT VERIFIED.

He was, by his own much-quoted account on the Manifold podcast and in his 2022 book, captivated by Einstein and special/general relativity from boyhood: “I was utterly entranced by relativity from the age of about twelve to fourteen.” This early intellectual orientation shaped what came next.

2. Education

2.1 University of Bristol, 1971–1974

Degree: First-class Joint Honours, Mathematics and Physics
Graduated: 1974
Source: Bristol honorary-graduates citation (2016), Wikipedia, Wikidata, Royal Society fellow page

It was at Bristol that Palmer first encountered the technical apparatus of general relativity. By the time he graduated he was determined to do theoretical physics in the relativity tradition. Oxford under Dennis Sciama was the natural target.

2.2 University of Oxford, DPhil 1974–1977

DPhil University of Oxford 1977 in general relativity
Supervisor: Dennis William Sciama (1926–1999), then a Fellow of All Souls / based at the Department of Astrophysics; the same Sciama who had supervised Stephen Hawking (1962–66), Martin Rees, Brandon Carter, John Barrow, and many others
Thesis: “Covariant conservation equations and their relation to the energy-momentum concept in general relativity” (Wikidata, Wikipedia)
Topic: bitensor / tangent-bundle geometry approach to quasi-local energy-momentum problems in general relativity. Sciama had pointed Palmer at the Principle of Maximum Entropy Production for understanding Hawking radiation — Palmer found this approach unproductive and pursued the bitensor route instead
Contemporaries in Sciama’s group: David Deutsch (the quantum-computation pioneer) — “we were graduate students in the Sciama Hut in the 1970s,” Palmer recalled at Deutsch’s 70th-birthday tribute. Many of the Hut alumni — Palmer, Deutsch and others — went on to become Fellows of the Royal Society
Oxford college as a DPhil student: Not clearly documented in public biographical sources. Palmer’s later Oxford appointment (2010–) is at Jesus College; his DPhil-era college affiliation is not recorded in any biographical page consulted

Sciama’s hands-off style — “let us follow our own noses” — was important to Palmer’s later willingness to switch fields. Palmer kept friendships from the Hut; the David Deutsch Festschrift contribution (2023) is full of warm reminiscence about “Dennis was a remarkable man.”

2.3 The pivot from general relativity to meteorology, 1977

This is the most discussed turning point in Palmer’s career, told several times in his own words (Manifold interview, Primacy of Doubt author’s note, festschrift contributions):

He was offered a postdoctoral position with Stephen Hawking’s group at DAMTP, Cambridge, immediately after his DPhil. This was the obvious next career step
He declined the Cambridge / Hawking offer after a chance encounter with geophysicist Raymond Hide
Raymond Hide (1929–2016) was then at the Met Office, a fluid-dynamicist who had laboratory work on rotating-fluid analogues of planetary atmospheres and a longstanding interest in both astrophysics and meteorology. Sciama knew him; the worlds touched
The trigger for Palmer was a question Hide raised about applying the Principle of Maximum Entropy Production to climate — the very concept Sciama had pointed Palmer towards for black-hole evaporation. Palmer’s recollection: “It felt like some higher power was telling me what to do with my life.” (David Deutsch 70th-birthday Festschrift)
Another version (Manifold interview): “if I don’t like it, I’ll go back to theoretical physics” — Palmer treated the move as provisional. He never went back

The 2016 Bristol honorary-degree citation contains an error here, stating Palmer did “postdoctoral research at Cambridge under Stephen Hawking.” This is contradicted by Palmer’s own published recollections — he declined the Hawking offer. Cite Palmer’s own sources, not the Bristol citation, on this point.

3. Career chronology

3.1 UK Meteorological Office (Bracknell), 1978–1986

Joined the Met Office at Bracknell in 1978 in Forecasting Research
Specialty: stratospheric dynamics; the Met Office had heavily invested in the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) launched on Tiros-N in October 1978, providing new data on the middle atmosphere
Visit to the University of Washington, Seattle during the Met Office period — confirmed by Oxford Physics, the IMO Prize laureate page and Wikipedia, although exact dates are not documented in public sources. It was a visiting position, not a long postdoc
1979–1982 collaboration with Michael McIntyre (DAMTP Cambridge) on stratospheric Rossby wave breaking. Several “rich discussions” produced McIntyre & Palmer, “Breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere,” Nature 305, 593–600 (1983) — the paper that became the front cover of that issue of Nature. The follow-up paper (1984) extended the picture. The McIntyre–Palmer framework — main polar vortex + surrounding “surf zone” where potential-vorticity tongues are stirred by large-scale wave breaking — is now standard in middle-atmosphere dynamics textbooks. This is the work the NAS citation refers to when it says Palmer “co-discovered” the world’s largest breaking waves
1985: First operational ensemble forecast system at the Met Office, with James Murphy, for monthly forecasts. This is the often-overlooked prequel to the ECMWF EPS, cited in the 2023 WMO IMO Prize announcement

By the time he left Bracknell in 1986, Palmer was already among the leading atmospheric dynamicists of his generation.

3.2 ECMWF, Reading, 1986–2010/11

1986 joined ECMWF as Head of the newly created Predictability and Diagnostics Division. The division was effectively created for him — the Met Office and ECMWF understood that medium-range and seasonal prediction needed someone who would integrate theoretical understanding of chaos with operational forecasting
His team in the late 1980s and early 1990s included Franco Molteni and Roberto Buizza — together they developed the singular-vector method of generating initial-condition perturbations
24 November 1992: ECMWF EPS becomes operational — the first operational medium-range ensemble at a global centre (NMC’s MRF Ensemble in the USA started a few weeks later, on 7 December 1992)
1996– Lead, PROVOST (PRediction Of climate Variations On Seasonal to interannual Time-scales), an EU Framework 4 project
2002– Head of the renamed Probabilistic Forecasting and Diagnostics Division at ECMWF (the rename reflected the addition of formally probabilistic seasonal forecasting). Lead, DEMETER (Development of a European Multimodel Ensemble system for seasonal to interannual prediction), EU Framework 5 — this multi-coupled-model ensemble approach became the methodological backbone of IPCC AR4 seasonal-prediction assessments
2007: As an IPCC contributor, shared in the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 awarded jointly to IPCC and Al Gore
He served on every IPCC report from FAR (1990) through AR6 (2021)
Two European Research Council Advanced Grants in the 2010s funded his post-ECMWF work (cited by NAS directory)

Throughout the ECMWF years Palmer also pushed stochastic parametrization as an essential tool for representing model uncertainty — not just initial-condition uncertainty — in ensembles. This is now standard practice across operational centres.

3.3 University of Oxford, 2010– (present)

2010: announced as one of the Royal Society 350th Anniversary Research Professors (the “2010 Anniversary” chairs created to celebrate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary). Title: Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics
2010– Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, in the Oxford Martin School
2010– Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
Department: Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics sub-department, Department of Physics; research group “Predictability of weather and climate”; office Robert Hooke Building room S43
Inaugural Fellow of ECMWF (a non-resident honorific role held concurrently)
2011–2012: President of the Royal Meteorological Society
Visiting positions: scientist at the University of Washington; Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
From the mid-2010s his agenda shifted partly to quantum-mechanical foundations (the “Cosmological Invariant Set Postulate” — a deterministic, fractal-state-space account of quantum mechanics) — work that culminated in the book The Primacy of Doubt (2022). He retains an affiliation with the Oxford Quantum Institute
Now Emeritus at Oxford Physics and Emeritus Fellow at Jesus College

A 2022 ECMWF symposium “30 Years of Ensemble Forecasting and Symposium for Prof. Tim Palmer” (Reading, 5–6 December 2022) doubled as a 70th-birthday festschrift for him, with talks from collaborators across the EPS lineage. The festschrift web pages produced for that event remain one of the best public biographical sources on him.

4. Family and personal life

Wife: Gill Palmer (named on Jesus College page, ECMWF festschrift quote). They live in West Berkshire (the West Berkshire Downs), a quiet rural area west of Reading, an easy commute to either Oxford or ECMWF Reading
Three sons (Jesus College Oxford people page; not publicly named)
Hobbies:
- Guitar — he plays in a band. Gill’s much-repeated line on his band-mates: they joke he is “desperately trying to save the planet — while living on another one”
- Poetry — composes original poems; festschrift dedicates a whole page to “Tim Palmer: Mathematical physicist, climate dynamicist, poet, band leader”
- Golf
- Mountain biking across the West Berkshire Downs

A picture of physicist as “modern-day renaissance man” emerges in the festschrift — “original thinker” who has carried general-relativistic intuition into atmospheric science, and atmospheric intuition back into quantum foundations.

5. Personality and approach

The most-quoted descriptions of Palmer (festschrift, podcast interviews, the IAI TV speaker page) emphasise:

The physicist’s mindset applied to meteorology — Palmer was trained on Lorenz and Hawking, not on synoptic charts. His career-defining argument is that weather forecasting must be probabilistic because the equations of motion are chaotic, full stop. He brought that to a forecasting community whose institutions and computing budgets were oriented around deterministic single forecasts
The gambler’s view of the atmosphere: every forecast is a bet; the right unit of analysis is the probability density, not the deterministic trajectory. The Primacy of Doubt makes this point repeatedly
Passionate communicator: the EMS Silver Medal 2012 citation singled out his “outstanding skills and commitment in communicating the underlying concepts to non-specialists”; the 2019 Royal Meteorological Society Honorary Fellowship cited him “changing the way that weather and climate are viewed both by the public, by the weather and climate prediction community, and by scientists in other disciplines”
An active public-lecture circuit through the 2010s and 2020s — IAI Festival, World Economic Forum, BBC, IPCC outreach, university lecture tours
Original thinker: from the 2010s onward his work strayed deliberately into terrain — quantum foundations, free will, consciousness — that most operational meteorologists would consider outside their remit. Palmer is unembarrassed about this
Palmer’s own self-description, from the Manifold podcast: he turned down Hawking because he wanted “something a bit more practical and useful” with greater “impact on fellow human beings.” His 2022 book opens with the same theme

6. The Primacy of Doubt (2022)

Full title: The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help us understand our chaotic world (UK title; the US edition reverses the subtitle to From Quantum Physics to Climate Change)
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) / Basic Books (US)
Hardback: 18 October 2022 (UK ISBN 9780192843593)
Paperback: subsequent paperback edition ISBN 9780192843609
Themes: Geometry of chaos; nonlinearity and prediction; probabilistic risk-framing of climate action; the Bell theorem and quantum foundations re-cast in terms of fractal invariant sets; the role of uncertainty in pandemics, economics, free will, creativity, consciousness
Endorsements:
- Roger Penrose, OM FRS (Nobel Prize Physics 2020): “The Primacy of Doubt provides a remarkably broad-ranging account of uncertainty in physics, in all its various aspects. I strongly recommend this highly thought-provoking book.”
- Martin Rees (Astronomer Royal)
- Brian Clegg: “quite possibly the best popular science book I’ve ever read.”
Central argument: “uncertainty, or doubt” should be elevated “not as an afterthought, but as a matter of primal importance”; climate action should be “framed in terms of risk” rather than certainty about catastrophic outcomes; chaotic systems are “predictable most of the time, but spectacularly unpredictable on occasion”

The book is the most accessible portal into Palmer’s worldview for a general reader, and is the source of many of the quotes circulating in 2024–2026 climate journalism (Wired, BBC, IAI TV interviews).

7. Awards and honours

This is the consolidated, deduplicated list, with citations where I could find them:

Year	Honour	Citation / context
1997	AMS Jule G. Charney Medal (Wikidata)	For atmospheric dynamics work
2003	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)	For ensemble forecasting work
2004	Academia Europaea Member
2006	WMO Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award
2007	Shared in IPCC Nobel Peace Prize	As IPCC contributor
2010	AMS Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal	“For fundamental contributions to understanding the role of nonlinear processes in the predictability of weather and climate, and for developing tools to estimate such predictability”
2011–12	President, Royal Meteorological Society
2012	EMS Silver Medal (European Meteorological Society)	“For his pioneering work on predictability of weather and climate and for his outstanding skills and commitment in communicating the underlying concepts to non-specialists.” Ceremony 12 September 2012, Łódź, Poland; laudatio by Dominique Marbouty
2014	Dirac Medal, Institute of Physics	“For development of probabilistic weather and climate prediction systems”
2015	CBE — Commander of the Order of the British Empire	New Year Honours 2015, “for services to science”
2015	American Philosophical Society, International Member
2016	Honorary DSc, University of Bristol	21 July 2016
2017	Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, International Member
2018	EGU Lewis Fry Richardson Medal	“For his fundamental contributions to the conception and practical implementation of a system for ensemble weather prediction and the recent development of a similar probabilistic approach to climate”
2019	American Meteorological Society, Honorary Member
2019	American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Honorary Member
2019	Royal Meteorological Society Honorary Fellowship	“For his revolution in the fields of weather and climate prediction and changing the way that weather and climate are viewed both by the public, by the weather and climate prediction community, and by scientists in other disciplines”
2020	Royal Meteorological Society Honorary Member (different from Honorary Fellow — list confusion possible in sources)
2020	Foundational Questions Institute, Member	For quantum-foundations work
2020	US National Academy of Sciences, International Member	Section 16 Geophysics (primary), Section 13 Physics (secondary)
2023	Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for Geophysics	“For outstanding work in advancing the understanding and prediction of climate and weather”
2023	Royal Irish Academy, Honorary Member
2023	WMO IMO Prize (International Meteorological Organization Prize — WMO’s highest single honour, named after WMO’s predecessor)	Announced 6 June 2023; “Ensemble prediction is an almost universally used in weather prediction today, on all timescales. Developing reliable ensembles lies at the heart of many weather service strategic plans. Importantly it is completely transforming the way in which disaster relief agencies operate.” He follows Lorenz (2000) and Houghton (1998) on the IMO laureate list. He delivered the keynote lecture at the 2024 WMO Executive Council meeting

Awards the brief asked about that he did NOT receive (or where I could not verify receipt):

EGU Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal — multiple searches of the EGU laureate list show Palmer is not on it. The brief’s “Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal EGU 2007 (?)” appears to be confused with the Richardson Medal he received in 2018, or with a Bjerknes Lecture (not a medal) that he may have given. Mark NOT VERIFIED — likely confusion
AGU Roger Revelle Medal — could not verify; no source consulted lists it among his honours. NAS notes he is an Honorary Member of AGU (i.e., a Fellow of the AGU) but no Revelle Medal citation is found
Royal Meteorological Society Buchan Prize / L.F. Richardson Medal (RMS one, distinct from EGU) — I find only the 2019 RMS Honorary Fellowship and a separate 2020 Honorary Membership; no separate Buchan or RMS-Richardson noted for him. The brief may have conflated the EGU L.F. Richardson Medal (which he did receive in 2018) with the RMS prize of the same name (which he did not)
Knighthood (KBE) — never received. He holds CBE 2015, not KBE/Knight Bachelor

Awards the brief did not list that he did receive:

AMS Charney Medal 1997 — major, surprising omission
EMS Silver Medal 2012
WMO Norbert Gerbier-Mumm Award 2006
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for Geophysics 2023
Royal Society Esso Energy Award (cited on his Royal Society fellow page, though the citation text reads more like that of an earlier award not necessarily made to him alone — possibly group award for the operational global model)

8. Selected publications

(Biographical / mostly cited, not technical — the parallel agent is doing the EPS technical literature.)

McIntyre M.E. & Palmer T.N. (1983). “Breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere.” Nature 305, 593–600. Front cover paper. ~3000+ citations.
McIntyre M.E. & Palmer T.N. (1984). “The ‘surf zone’ in the stratosphere.” Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics 46, 825–849.
Palmer T.N. (2019). “The ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System: Looking Back (more than) 25 Years and Projecting Forward 25 Years.” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 145 (Suppl.), 12–24. — His own retrospective on the EPS.
Palmer T.N. (2022). The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help us understand our chaotic world. Oxford University Press / Basic Books.
Palmer T.N. & Hagedorn R., eds (2006). Predictability of Weather and Climate. Cambridge University Press. — Standard reference text.

9. Status as of 2026

Alive in 2026. Age 73 (born 31 Dec 1952, currently 73 since 31 Dec 2025).
Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford Physics; Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College
Actively writing and speaking; the Primacy of Doubt paperback (2024) and follow-on essays through 2024–2026 continue his public-intellectual phase

10. Source disagreements and unresolved items

CBE year: Bristol honorary-graduates citation says “CBE (2005 Queen’s Honours)” — this is wrong; multiple official sources (Oxford University Press releases on the 2015 New Year Honours, Wikipedia citing the Gazette, his own Royal Society profile) confirm 2015. The Bristol page appears to be a transcription error
Cambridge / Hawking postdoc: Bristol citation says he did one; Palmer himself (Manifold interview, Deutsch Festschrift, Primacy of Doubt author’s note) says he was offered but declined. Follow Palmer’s own account.
Departure from ECMWF year: Most sources say 2010 (matching the Royal Society 350th Anniversary chair announcement); one ECMWF symposium page says 2011. The Royal Society chairs were announced in 2010 and took up post in 2010 in most cases — treat as 2010 unless someone produces a contract page
Oxford undergraduate / DPhil college: undergrad was Bristol, not Oxford; DPhil-era college affiliation never publicly named
Bristol Grammar School: not corroborated by any source; the brief should not assume it
Parents’ names and professions: not found
AGU Revelle Medal: not corroborated; remove from any draft
EGU Bjerknes Medal: not corroborated; remove from any draft

11. Hero-image candidates

The 2013 World Economic Forum Davos photograph (the brief calls this out — assets/images/Mark_Cane.jpg is unrelated, ignore; the actual WEF photo of Palmer is at https://www.weforum.org/people/tim-palmer/ but appears not to be freely re-distributable; check WEF Commons or the Royal Society press images)
A Royal Society portrait is available at his fellow page; Royal Society photos are usually CC-BY-SA when used in editorial context — verify licence before posting
The ECMWF festschrift 2022 included professional portraits of him on stage at Reading; check ECMWF media-resources licensing
A 2022 Oxford Physics feature “Professor Tim Palmer: revolutionising weather and climate prediction” carries a portrait — that page’s image may be the cleanest CC-permissible choice

12. Key quotes for the post

From Palmer’s own pen / mouth:

On the decision to leave relativity: “It felt like some higher power was telling me what to do with my life.” (David Deutsch 70th-birthday Festschrift)
On youth: “I was utterly entranced by relativity from the age of about twelve to fourteen.” (Manifold podcast)
On the move away from Hawking: he wanted “something a bit more practical and useful” with greater “impact on fellow human beings.” (Manifold podcast)
On the IMO Prize 2023: “an enormous honour” — joining “colleagues he admired throughout his career”
On uncertainty (paraphrase from Primacy of Doubt): doubt should be elevated “not as an afterthought, but as a matter of primal importance”; climate action should be “framed in terms of risk” rather than certainty
On the geometry of chaos (paraphrase from Primacy of Doubt): chaotic systems are “predictable most of the time, but spectacularly unpredictable on occasion”

From Roger Penrose on Palmer:

“The Primacy of Doubt provides a remarkably broad-ranging account of uncertainty in physics, in all its various aspects. I strongly recommend this highly thought-provoking book.”

From Gill Palmer on Tim:

His fellow band members joke he is “desperately trying to save the planet — while living on another one.”

From the EGU Richardson Medal 2018 citation:

“for his fundamental contributions to the conception and practical implementation of a system for ensemble weather prediction and the recent development of a similar probabilistic approach to climate”

From the WMO IMO Prize 2023 citation:

“Ensemble prediction is […] almost universally used in weather prediction today, on all timescales. […] it is completely transforming the way in which disaster relief agencies operate.”

13. For the blog post: narrative through-lines

For a Post 45 in an NWP/HPC history series running in 2026, the strongest biographical through-lines Palmer offers:

The pivot away from Hawking — a clean dramatic moment: a chance meeting with Raymond Hide, a decision to swap black holes for clouds, on the grounds that he wanted to make “a more practical and useful” contribution. The post’s narrative anchor.
The McIntyre–Palmer 1983 Nature paper as the marker of his arrival at the front rank of dynamical meteorology — before the ensemble work that the world now knows him for.
The 1986 ECMWF arrival and the singular-vector EPS team — Palmer + Buizza + Molteni — as a tight institutional story; 24 November 1992 as the date when modern operational probabilistic forecasting starts.
The 2010 return to Oxford — closing the circle of the Sciama Hut. The same university, a different building (the Robert Hooke), a quietly different physics.
The 2022 Primacy of Doubt book — the late-career integration of relativity, quantum foundations, and meteorology into a single argument about uncertainty.
Personal colour: the West Berkshire Downs, the guitar, the band, the poetry, the wife Gill’s joke about saving the planet from another one — a useful counterweight to the technical machinery.

The corrections to flag for the parent agent’s post draft:

Use “Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS”, not “Sir Tim Palmer”
Bristol undergrad, Oxford DPhil — keep that order straight
Declined Hawking, not joined Hawking
2015 CBE, not 2014 knighthood
IMO Prize 2023, RAS Gold Medal 2023, EGU Richardson 2018, AMS Rossby 2010 — these are the medal names worth dropping
He held no AGU Revelle Medal and no EGU Bjerknes Medal — drop both from the post if drafted

End of biographical research file for Tim Palmer. Next step (parent agent): cross-reference against parallel agent’s EPS technical file before drafting Post 45.

Michał Brennek