biography
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| (1917– )
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| biography:
| Biologist, teacher, and environmental activist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Columbia University and Harvard (1941 PhD), and taught at Washington University (St Louis) (1947–76) before becoming head of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, a New York City energy and environmental research centre. Through lecturing and writing he had a wide influence as an environmentalist, and Time magazine called him ‘a professor with a class of millions’. He became increasingly more outspoken on behalf of environmental causes and ran for president of the USA in 1980 on the Citizen's Party ticket. His book, Making Peace with the Planet, appeared in 1990. |
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