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In 1974, he accepted a professorship at MIT. Being the ever-restless researcher, and not called to teaching in the classroom, he resigned from his MIT professorship in 1986; he stayed on at MIT as a senior research associate, while exploring collaborationsduring visiting appointments in France (Grenoble, Montpellier), the UK (Oxford), and back in the US, at Caltech and UC Santa Barbara.

He needed to understand that connection. In a 2010 review paper, he and his colleagues quantified these ideas. Work with good people. My own interests are more mundane. He worked largely in seismology, using it as a tool that allowed him to advance the basic understanding of the physical processes that drive the tectonics of rigid plates.

Peter died in the Rocky Mountain small township of Lyons, Colorado, with his beloved wife Sara Neustadtl by his side, when pancreatic cancer lead this ever restlessly searching mind to come to peace and rest forever.

If I were only smarter, maybe I could do this. He followed this with a postdoc appointment at the University of California at San Diego and an exchange scientist position in the USSR before being appointed in 1974 a Professor at MIT.  He resigned from his faculty position at MIT in 1986, remaining a senior research associate there until 2000.

This research direction has inspired numerous other scientists to interpret the rise of plateaus elsewhere (e.g. He became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, and then stepped down from the faculty position in 1986 to become a senior research associate there. For this is crucial to El Niño, I think.

He would launch them in the right direction with an equation and the need to understand its solution, and he would regularly discuss their ideas and difficulties. "Understanding" is a topic that I ponder often. While researching and pondering these fundamental questions, he still found time to focus on smaller processes with potentially large consequences: how do islands in large oceans enhance precipitation and what is their effect on El Niño and global climate?

In 2014, Peter Molnar was awarded, for his overarching work, the prestigious international Crafoord Prize in Geosciences.

Peter’s mind never rested.

He loved science,” Bilham said. Often, he would energize colleagues to organize international meetings to get people to think about these issues. Many of our most prestiguous lecturers over the last two decades came to Boulder because of invitations from him, or for a chance to discuss science with him.

He loved walking in the mountains, in snow or sunshine.

Did the aridification of Tibet, of portions of India and other continents deliver via sandstorms, or erosion from icy mountains produce abundant ferric minerals, that when transported into the oceans, accelerated the growth of CO2-consuming ocean biomass, thereby rapidly extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, causing global cooling and the formation of large ice masses on continents: the waxing and waning of glacial periods.

It took the offer from a true mountain state for Peter to accept again a full professorship in the Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, combined with being a Fellow of CIRES, starting in 2001.