Naomi Oreskes receives 2025 Volvo Environment Prize for her Pathbreaking Body of Work
The History of Science Department extends its warmest congratulations to Naomi Oreskes on winning the Volvo Environment Prize for her work on the history of science, climate change, and scientific consensus.
New findings are always questioned. That's how science works. Through this process of questioning, we can discern good claims from bad ones, separating the wheat from the chaff, and figuring out what seems to be true about the world.
Naomi Oreskes
oreskes@fas.harvard.edu Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science
Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
ON LEAVE SPRING 2026
Primary Areas of Research: Agnotology; the Political Economy of Scientific Knowledge; History and Philosophy of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Science and Technology Studies (STS); the History of Climate Change Disinformation Secondary Areas of...
