Professor Emeritus Anthony Chen is an Atmospheric Physicist who was a member of the Team awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for efforts made to increase and disseminate greater knowledge of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. In 2008 he was awarded an Order of Merit from the Jamaican government for his contribution to the field of climatology. Professor Anthony Chen's career started at Boston College where he achieved a BSc in Physics and Mathematics. He went on to further his education at Harvard where he earned a MA in teaching and gained teaching experience in high school teaching in the USA. His passion for Physics brought him to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His thesis as a graduate research student was surrounding the uppermost layers of the atmosphere focusing on the ionospheric plasma using data from the Goddard Space Flight Center. His work earned him an MSc on An End Effect Associated with Cylindrical Langmuir Probes on Explorer XVIII. Subsequent to this, he began his career at the University of the West Indies, Mona in the Department of Physics where he was assigned a position as a lecturer in 1968. He was instrumental in making the University internationally known by being the first to do research on the upper layer of the atmosphere within the Caribbean and, therefore, attracting US government funding. In 1972, he obtained his PhD entitled: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Ionospheric Irregularities Responsible for the Scintillation of Satellite Signals. Professor Chen has an extensive list of publications ranging from, book chapters, technical reports, and journal articles to conference proceedings. He has received multiple awards and accolades for his contribution to science, as well as, national building. He helped establish the Climate Science Group in the Department of Physics and continued to assist with its work including tutoring students and mentoring researchers well after his retirement.