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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.
May 24, 2024 · Barry Commoner (born May 28, 1917, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 30, 2012, New York, New York) was an American biologist and educator. He studied at Harvard University and taught at Washington University and Queens College.
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.
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...
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 Commoner...
Oct 2, 2012 · Barry Commoner, a pioneer scientists in the environmental movement and Greenpeace campaigns adviser, died Sunday. Barry Commoner (1917-2012) had a deep influence on Greenpeace back in the 1980s and 1990s, and was often way ahead of us on particular fronts.
