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Committee for Environmental Information, 1972-1973

Interviewee
Commoner, Barry April 24, 1973 

Call Number
73-011

Physical Description

36 pages; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 85 minutes; no index

Interviewer
Peterson, D. Scott

Scope and Content Note

Barry Commoner, born in 1915, describes his education and how he came to be a scientist. He talks about his experiences as a scientist during World War II and how this prompted his involvement in various scientific organizations. He describes how the Committee for Environmental Information came to be and the function it served.

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Open

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • Association of Scientific Workers
    • Atomic Energy Commission
    • Columbia University
    • Cornell University Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College
    • Federation of American Scientists
    • Federation of Atomic Scientists
    • Harvard University
    • Scientists Institute for Public Information
    • Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee
    • Seth Low Junior College
    • United States Department of Agriculture
    • University of Illinois
    • Washington University
    • WPA
    • Personal Names
    • Bauer, Walter
    • Baumgarten, Judy
    • Brodine, Virginia
    • Bronk, Detler
    • Bush, Vannevar
    • Carson, Rachel Louise
    • Condon, Ed A.
    • Deutsch, Babette
    • Dunn, Leslie C.
    • Edman, Irwin
    • Fowler, John
    • Gellhorn, Edna
    • Kilgore, Harley M.
    • LeMar, Victor
    • Magnuson, Warren G.
    • Mead, Margaret
    • Metcalf, Robert
    • Modell, Walter
    • Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
    • Pauling, Linus C.
    • Stevenson, Adlai
    • Thimann, Kenneth
    • Weaver, Warren
    • Place Names
    • Brooklyn, New York
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • Patuxent River
    • Soviet Union
    • St. Louis, Missouri
    • Subjects
    • 1945 May-Johnson Bill
    • atomic bomb
    • Cold War
    • DDT
    • discrimination
    • McCarthyism
    • New Deal
    • nuclear fallout
    • radiation
    • Russo-Finnish Way
    • science