William Wallace Mcmillan

W. W. McMillan received the degree in physics Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude from Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, in 1985. He earned the M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in planetary atmospheres from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in 1990 and 1992, respectively. After a National Research Council Post-Doctorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, from 1992 to 1994, he moved to the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, where he was an Associate Professor and Fellow in the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. He had worked with the AIRS project since coming to UMBC and was the lead scientist on the CO product from 2003–2010. He passed away on March 10, 2010.