[3] Scorer returned to Cambridge after the war to complete his Master and Doctoral studies with G. I. Taylor and George Batchelor.
[5] Their views were in conflict with those of the American Joanne Simpson which led to an exchange of letters and a meeting in 1954 for a significant advancement of knowledge in this field.
Richard Scorer established the Research Group on air pollution at Imperial College, the first in the UK to be devoted exclusively to this field of study.
Scorer carried out a US tour sponsored by the chemical industry in which he spoke against ongoing research into human effects on the ozone layer.
In addition to being the author of 16 books, he was a photographer, a cyclist, a marathon runner, a mountaineer, a bird watcher, a carpenter and talented luthier.
There is a wooden memorial bench dedicated to Richard Segar Scorer on the New Precipice Walk above Penmaenpool in North Wales.