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Human Exposure Assessment for Airborne Pollutants: Advances and Opportunities (1991)

Chapter: Appendix C: Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathmatics, and Resources

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathmatics, and Resources." National Research Council. 1991. Human Exposure Assessment for Airborne Pollutants: Advances and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1544.
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Appendix C: Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources . NORMAN HACKERMAN (Chairman), Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston ROBERT C. BEARDSLEY, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole B. CLARK BURCHFIEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge GEORGE F. CARRIER, Harvard University, Cambridge RALPH J. CICERONE, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder HERBERT D. DOAN, The Dow Chemical Co. (retired), Midland, Michigan PETER S. EAGLESON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge DEAN E. EASTMAN, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York MARYE ANNE FOX, University of Texas, Austin GERHART FRIEDLANDER, Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Uni versities, Inc., Long Island LAWRENCE W. FUNKHOUSER, Chevron Corp. (retired), Menlo Park, CA PHILLIP A. GRIFFrIHS, Duke University, Durham NEAL F. I^NE, Rice University, Houston CHRISTOPHER F. MCKEE, University of California at Berkeley RICHARD S. NICHOLSON, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. JACK E. OLIVER, Cornell University, Ithaca JEREMIAH P. OSTRIKER, Princeton University Observatory, Princeton PHILIP A. PALMER, E.I. du Pont `de Nemours & Co., Newark, DE FRANK L. PARKER, Vanderbilt University, Nashville DENIS J. PRAGER, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago DAVID M. RAUP, University of Chicago ROY F. SCHWIllERS, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, Dallas LARRY L. STARR, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign KARL K TUREKIAN, Yale University, New Haven Staff MYRON F. UMAN, Acting Executive Director 321

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