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Clair Patterson

American geochemist at Caltech who dated the Earth and then measured industrial lead in oceans, ice and people.

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Clair Cameron Patterson
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  1. worked at California Institute of Technology 1952–1995

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  1. 1952–1995 Clair Patterson worked at California Institute of Technology
  2. 1964 U.S. Public Health Service funded Clair Patterson
  3. 1965 Clair Patterson authored Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man
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  1. Clair Cameron Patterson Oral History Interview (interviews of March 1995 by Shirley K. Cohen), Caltech Archives, 1997. Primary record
    he came to Caltech with Brown
  2. Contaminated and Natural Lead Environments of Man (abstract, CaltechAUTHORS), California Institute of Technology (CaltechAUTHORS), 1965. Scholarship & press
    The preparation of this report was made possible by support from AEC Contract AT (04-3)-427 and a U. S. Public Health Service grant.
    A new approach to this matter suggests that the average resident of the United States is being subjected to severe chronic lead insult.
  3. Lead - Dangerous Pollution (Engineering and Science, October 1965), California Institute of Technology, 1965. Scholarship & press
    Existing average body burdens of lead are about 100 times larger than natural burdens.
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