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Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems and its Critical Genetics Project.
Apr 30, 2024 · Barry Commoner was an American biologist and educator. He studied at Harvard University and taught at Washington University and Queens College. His warnings, since the 1950s, of the environmental threats posed by modern technology (including nuclear weapons, use of pesticides and other toxic
Barry Commoner (1917-2012), founded the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washington University in 1966 as the first Federally-funded environmental health sciences center in the nation. Barry was an exceptional scientist, teacher, writer and citizen.
Environmentalist. Columbia College 1937. A renowned cellular biologist, Barry Commoner helped initiate the modern environmental movement. In the early 1950s, Commoner—then a professor at Washington University in St. Louis—became concerned about radioactive fallout spreading from nuclear-weapons tests in the Nevada desert.
Oct 1, 2012 · Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 95...
Oct 1, 2012 · Remembering Barry Commoner. Called the “Paul Revere of ecology,” Barry Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America’s most prominent modern environmentalist. Peter Dreier. Courtesy:...
Jun 23, 1997 · Interview with Barry Commoner. A leading environmentalist reviews his long, contentious past and sets new directions for the future. By Alan Hall. Environment. On May 30, 1997, Barry...
