Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems[1][2] and its Critical Genetics Project.[3][4][5] He ran as the Citizens Party candidate in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.[6] His work studying the radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing led to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963.[7]
^Daum, Karl (Winter 2012–13). "Obituaries: Barry Commoner '37, Environmental and Social Activist". Columbia College Today. Columbia College. Retrieved September 28, 2020. He also founded the Center for Biology of Natural Systems in 1966 to promote research on ecological systems. In 2000, he stepped down as director to concentrate on new research projects of his own.
^"Barry Commoner". Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
^"Program". Critical Genetics Project. Queens College, City University of New York. December 4, 2002. Archived from the original on February 11, 2003. Retrieved September 28, 2020. The program has been underway since February 2001. An initial analytical paper, "Unraveling the DNA Myth," has been published in the Harper's Magazine issue of February 2002....The Critical Genetics Project is a program of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), Queens College, City University of New York
^U.S. Newswire (January 2002). "New Report Challenges Fundamentals of Genetic Engineering; Study Questions Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods". The Pure Water Gazette. Pure Water Products, LLC. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2020. The study reported in Harper's Magazine is the initial publication of a new initiative called The Critical Genetics Project directed by Dr. Commoner in collaboration with molecular geneticist Dr. Andreas Athanasiou, at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York.
^Commoner, Barry (February 1, 2002). "Unraveling the DNA myth". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
^Vinciguerra, Thomas (June 19, 2007). "A Conversation with Barry Commoner: At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^Lewis, Daniel (October 1, 2012). "Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth's Lifeguard". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
BarryCommoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and...
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Administration. Speakers at various SunDay events included Margaret Mead, Dr. BarryCommoner, Pete Seeger and Amory Lovins. In 1979 and 1980, Van Wagenen organized...
Party ran biologist BarryCommoner for president and Comanche Native American activist LaDonna Harris for vice president. The Commoner–Harris ticket was...
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will never run for president". The party ended up nominating biologist BarryCommoner instead. Nader stood in as a write-in for "none of the above" in both...
Citizens Party (United States), a short lived political party organized by BarryCommoner in 1979 and predecessor of the Green Party Citizens Party of the United...
support-more far-sighted conservation legislation." Time magazine called BarryCommoner, the "Paul Revere of ecology" for his work on the threats to life from...
cover for the 2 February 1970 Time magazine issue, showing the face of BarryCommoner, projecting a powerful image of ecology, which took the stage for the...
and disadvantaged groups or even a return to eugenics. Eco-socialist BarryCommoner argued that the Ehrlichs were too focused on overpopulation as the source...
physicians Eric and Louise Reiss, along with other scientists such as BarryCommoner and Ursula Franklin, the research focused on detecting the presence...
Making Peace With the Planet is a 1990 book by BarryCommoner. Commoner argues that, despite billions of dollars spent to save the environment, America...
Citizens Party in the 1980 United States presidential election alongside BarryCommoner. She was the first Native American woman to run for vice president....
ballot line in Ohio in place of BarryCommoner's official running mate La Donna Harris. The vote total is for the Commoner-Hanson ticket in Ohio only."General...
are "external" to the producer and consumer of the polluting product. BarryCommoner commented on the costs of externalities: Clearly, we have compiled a...
May 1957, working with Washington University in St. Louis professor BarryCommoner, Pauling began to circulate a petition among scientists to stop nuclear...
commentators Muhammad Ali 1980 presidential nominee of the Citizens Party BarryCommoner List of Ernest F. Hollings endorsements Hollings had received endorsements...
from outside). (See Second law of thermodynamics.) The bio-ecologist BarryCommoner used this concept as the last of his famous "Four Laws of Ecology"....
Pandora's Box (1992), by Adam Curtis The Closing Circle (1971), by BarryCommoner The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), by Marjory Stoneman Douglas Bioaccumulation...
included Senator Nelson, Senator Muskie, Walter Reuther, Ralph Nader, and BarryCommoner. "When Michigan Students Put the Car on Trial". smithsonianmag.com....
0.85% 0 Right to Life Ellen McCormack 24,159 0.39% 0 Citizens Party BarryCommoner 23,186 0.37% 0 Communist Gus Hall 7,414 0.12% 0 Socialist Workers Clifton...
Charles III (King of the Commonwealth Realms) Chevy Chase (comedian) BarryCommoner (biologist, politician) Mike Cooley (engineer, trade unionist) Jacques-Yves...
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