Donella H. Meadows
Environmental scientist and writer
Donella Meadows was an American environmental scientist and writer who taught at Dartmouth College. She was lead author of The Limits to Growth and Thinking in Systems.
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American Born 1941 in Elgin, United States Died 2001
About Donella H. Meadows
Donella Meadows, known as Dana, was born in 1941 and died in 2001. She studied chemistry at Carleton College, graduating in 1963, and earned a doctorate in biophysics at Harvard in 1968. She and her husband, Dennis Meadows, became research fellows at MIT, working in a team in the department set up by Jay Forrester, who created system dynamics. She went on to teach at Dartmouth College for 29 years, starting in 1972, and was an adjunct professor of environmental studies there. She was also a farmer. Meadows founded the Sustainability Institute and co-founded the International Network of Resource Information Centers. She received a MacArthur grant often called the Genius Grant. Her best-known books are The Limits to Growth and Thinking in Systems.