Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner · Science & Medicine
Biologist and a founding figure of the modern environmental movement.
1917, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2012, Manhattan, New York, United States
United States
Barry Commoner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biologist and a founding figure of the modern environmental movement.
Commoner was a cellular biologist who became a leading founder of the modern environmental movement, warning of the ecological costs of nuclear testing, pollution and technology and running for U.S. president in 1980. He was born in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish immigrant family.
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Biologist and a founding figure of the modern environmental movement.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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