while thereafter; and this followed in turn by (c) a glaciation lasting (like the previous ones) for many thousands of years.” Awards 1974 - Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society, UK 1984 - Vega Medal of the Swedish Geographical Society 1986 - Symons Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1997 - European Geophysical Society Honorary Membership Commemoration In August 2006, the Climatic Research Unit Building in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia was renamed the Hubert Lamb Building. In the same year, Lamb was hailed as 'instrumental in establishing the study of climate change as a serious research subject' in a report listing the 'top 100 world-changing discoveries, innovations and research projects to come out of the UK universities in the last 50 years'. In September 2013, the centenary of Lamb's birth was commemorated by a symposium at the University of East Anglia, co-organised with the Royal Meteorological Society. Family Lamb was son of Ernest Horace Lamb (1878–1946), DSC, DSc, professor of engineering at Queen Mary College, London and Lilian, daughter of Rev. G. H. Brierley. Ernest Lamb was eldest son of the mathematician Horace Lamb, whose influence Hubert Lamb credited for his own early career at the Meteorological Office. His son Norman Lamb was the MP for North Norfolk from 2001 until 2019. Books Climate, History and the Modern World () Climate Present Past and Future () References External links H.H. Lamb Archive, University of East Anglia 1913 births 1997 deaths British climatologists British meteorologists British paleogeographers British conscientious objectors Academics of the University of East Anglia People associated with the University of East Anglia Paleoclimatologists