A Nobel prize winner and renowned educator, scientist and author will visit Iowa State tonight to reflect upon issues concerning the global environment with ISU students, faculty and staff.

Henry Kendall, Nobel Laureate and J.A. Stratton Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present “Global Environmental Problems: The Next 50 Years.”

The lecture will be held at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

The presentation, according to a press release, is part of the ISU Presidential Lecture series “Science and Technology for Sustainable Development.”

Kendall has been chairman of the board for the Union of Concerned Scientists since 1974.

He is also one of the founding members of the organization.

The organization emphasizes the important need for an environmentally stable world for today without risking the environment of tomorrow, stated a press release.

He has participated in U.S. energy and defense issues, as well as participating in various global issues. His global interest work includes environmental pressures, resource management and population growth.

Kendall was also directly involved in the White House’s Global Change Initiative. The initiative centered on climate disruptions and world food production.

Kendall, a particle physicist, was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for helping to produce investigations on deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons.

The studies were instrumental in developing the quark model in particle physics.

He has written numerous books, including “The Fallacy of Star Wars,” “Beyond the Freeze: The Road to Nuclear Sanity” and “Energy Strategies: Toward a Solar Future.”