Professor Prospero earned a B.S. in chemistry at Ursinus college in Collegeville Pennsylvania in 1956 – afterwards he went on to Princeton University where he received both a M.A. and PhD studying radiochemistry and nuclear spectroscopy. Shortly after, he joined the University of Miami as a faculty member in 1963. Throughout his career, he has published more than 170 papers, which (according to google scholar) has been cited over 50,000 times.  He founded Barbados Atmospheric Chemistry Observatory in 1966. Alongside his amazing research career, Professor Prospero has received man awards, including (but not limited to) becoming a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2004.