Editing Richard Lindzen (section)

==Early life and education==
Lindzen was born on February 8, 1940, in [[Webster, Massachusetts]].<ref name=CV/> His father, a shoemaker, had fled [[Nazi Germany]] with his mother. Lindzen moved to [[The Bronx]] soon after his birth and grew up in a Jewish household in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood.<ref name=stevenswnyt/><ref name=WS>{{cite web|last=Epstein|first=Ethan|title=What Catastrophe?|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-catastrophe_773268.html#|work=The Magazine|publisher=[[The Weekly Standard]]|access-date=January 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106162314/http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-catastrophe_773268.html|archive-date=January 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lindzen attended the [[Bronx High School of Science]], where he won Regents' and [[National Merit Scholarship Program|National Merit]] Scholarships, then [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] before matriculating at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.newsweek.com/2001/07/22/the-truth-about-global-warming.html | work = Newsweek | title = The Truth About Global Warming |last=Guterl |first=Fred |date =July 22, 2001}}</ref> In 1960, he graduated [[Bachelor of Science|Bachelor of Arts]] in physics, ''[[magna cum laude]]'', followed by a [[Master of Science]] degree in applied mathematics in 1961 and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1964. His doctoral thesis, ''Radiative and photochemical processes in strato- and mesospheric dynamics'', was about the interactions of ozone photochemistry, radiative transfer, and dynamics in the middle atmosphere.<ref>{{cite thesis | last =Lindzen | first = Richard Siegmund | title=Radiative and photochemical processes in strato- and mesospheric dynamics | publisher=Harvard University | year=1965| oclc = 76991637 }}</ref>