by using geoengineering. Myhrvold and other inventors working with Intellectual Ventures have proposed several approaches, including one that would use hoses, suspended from helium balloons above the Earth at high latitudes, to emit sulfur dioxide, which is known to scatter light. Another approach would stimulate the formation and brightening of marine clouds to reflect more sunlight back into space. Affiliations and awards Myhrvold received the James Beard Foundation Award for cookbook of the year in 2012 and an honorary degree from The Culinary Institute of America in 2013 for his book Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. His book Modernist Bread received a James Beard Foundation book award in 2018. In 2010, Myhrvold was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top 100 global thinkers. He was selected as the keynote speaker for the UCLA College commencement ceremonies on Friday, June 12, 2015 and received the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Luminary Award from the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences in 2021. In 2013, Myhrvold was a judge for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Princeton University awarded him the James Madison Medal in 2005. He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1996. Myhrvold endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Personal life Myhrvold is married to Rosemarie Havranek, whom he met while studying at Princeton. They have twin sons, Conor and Cameron A. Myhrvold. Cameron studied biology at Princeton, and then did his PhD at Harvard's Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program. After that he got a postdoc position at Pardis Sabeti lab in Harvard, working closely with Feng Zhang on CRISPR. After his postdoc, he started his own lab at Princeton. Nathan Myhrvold also has a younger brother, Cameron. References Further reading Auletta, Ken, "The Highwaymen", Harvest Books, 1998. — cf Chapter 17: The Microsoft Provocateur: Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates Corporate Gadfly. Edstrom, Jennifer and Eller, Marlin, "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside: How The World's Richest Corporation Wields Its Power", Holt Paperbacks, 1999. External links Biography from Intellectual Ventures Who's afraid of Nathan Myhrvold?, Fortune, July 10, 2006 In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?, Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, May 12, 2008 The intellectual venturer, by Michael Watts 21.January 2011 Wired UK Microsoft’s Former CTO Takes On Modernist Cuisine, by Mark McClusky February 24, 2011 Wired.com