ENVIRONMENTAL ODYSSEY (cl)University of Washington Press, 1990 - 264 pages |
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... importance of laboratory research and used it to assist and guide my work in the field but my main interests were in the world of noxious gases , radiations , dusts , and smokes . These are the unpleasant byproducts of life in a ...
... importance of laboratory research and used it to assist and guide my work in the field but my main interests were in the world of noxious gases , radiations , dusts , and smokes . These are the unpleasant byproducts of life in a ...
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... important it is that priorities be properly aligned , and that difficult choices be made in an orderly manner . To the many scientists , engineers , physicians , lawyers , and others who have entered the field of environmental health ...
... important it is that priorities be properly aligned , and that difficult choices be made in an orderly manner . To the many scientists , engineers , physicians , lawyers , and others who have entered the field of environmental health ...
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... important resource . I have also been helped by my longstanding practice of maintaining diaries in which the entries , though often very ab- breviated , were sufficient to remind me of people , places , and events . I appreciate the ...
... important resource . I have also been helped by my longstanding practice of maintaining diaries in which the entries , though often very ab- breviated , were sufficient to remind me of people , places , and events . I appreciate the ...
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... important that I look forward . Now that I have done so , it has proved to be a rewarding experience . I have always found my work enjoyable , but assembling these memoirs has made it doubly so , first in the doing and again in pleasant ...
... important that I look forward . Now that I have done so , it has proved to be a rewarding experience . I have always found my work enjoyable , but assembling these memoirs has made it doubly so , first in the doing and again in pleasant ...
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... important factor . It was the kind of change that I should not have made without more advice than I received or asked for , but more than half a century later I can look back and say I have never re- gretted that decision . As it turned ...
... important factor . It was the kind of change that I should not have made without more advice than I received or asked for , but more than half a century later I can look back and say I have never re- gretted that decision . As it turned ...
Contents
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Industrial Hygiene in the War Industries | 25 |
Atomic Energy Commission Development of the Health and Safety Laboratory | 42 |
Atomic Energy Commission Studies of Radioactive Fallout | 63 |
Atomic Energy Commission From Science to Administration | 104 |
New York University Medical Center | 134 |
Environmental Protection Administrator City of New York | 176 |
Meeting Writing and Advising | 207 |
From the Past to the Present A FiftyFour Year Perspective | 219 |
NOTES | 244 |
INDEX | 252 |
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