March 4, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'Toxic Truth' tells of lead pioneers
Dr. Herbert L. Needleman, a University of Pittsburgh professor, trained pediatrician, psychiatrist and researcher noted for his seminal work with childhood lead poisoning, plays a starring role in the new book by former Newsweek reporter Lydia Denworth, "Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead."
The scientist in the book, due out March 18 (Beacon Press, $26.95), is geochemist Clair Patterson, who in 1949 at the University of Chicago was struck by the amount of lead that he found contaminating his samples while using uranium-lead dating to accurately calculate the age of the earth ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'Toxic Truth' tells of lead pioneers
Dr. Herbert L. Needleman, a University of Pittsburgh professor, trained pediatrician, psychiatrist and researcher noted for his seminal work with childhood lead poisoning, plays a starring role in the new book by former Newsweek reporter Lydia Denworth, "Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead."
The scientist in the book, due out March 18 (Beacon Press, $26.95), is geochemist Clair Patterson, who in 1949 at the University of Chicago was struck by the amount of lead that he found contaminating his samples while using uranium-lead dating to accurately calculate the age of the earth ...
read the entire article