Former Wash U Professor Barry Commoner Dies
The influential environmental scientist died at the age of 95.
Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmental scientist and former professor at Washington University in St. Louis died Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, in New York. Commoner was 95 and lived in Brooklyn Heights. The New York Times called Commoner "a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers." Commoner studied the impact of radioactive material following World War II, which included documenting concentrations of strontium 90 in the baby teeth of thousands of children, the Times reported. Commoner also contributed to the adoption of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. In 1970—the first year Earth Day was celebrated in the United States—Commoner made the cover of Time magazine. He turned to ecological studies …
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