Richard Mead Goody (19 June 1921 – 3 August 2023) was a British-American atmospheric physicist and professor of planetary physics at Harvard University.
[7] A native of Hertfordshire, Goody attended Cambridge University, from which he received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1942.
[4] He also made important discoveries into the structure of the stratosphere during this time, which led him to study radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres.
[8] Goody was appointed the Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Dynamic Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory at Harvard in 1958[2] and elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the following year.
[2] He served as the director of the Blue Hill Observatory until 1970,[10] and the chair of the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences from 1974 to 1976.