Clair Cameron Patterson
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American chemist and geochemist
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Clair Cameron Patterson's Degrees
- PhD Chemistry University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology .
Clair Cameron Patterson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Chemical concentrations of pollutant lead aerosols, terrestrial dusts and sea salts in Greenland and Antarctic snow strata☆ (1969) (753)
- Greenland Ice Evidence of Hemispheric Lead Pollution Two Millennia Ago by Greek and Roman Civilizations (1994) (648)
- Age of meteorites and the earth (1956) (438)
- Lead in albacore: guide to lead pollution in Americans. (1980) (427)
- Lead concentrations in the northeast Pacific: evidence for global anthropogenic perturbations (1981) (408)
- History of Ancient Copper Smelting Pollution During Roman and Medieval Times Recorded in Greenland Ice (1996) (356)
- CONTAMINATED AND NATURAL LEAD ENVIRONMENTS OF MAN. (1965) (342)
- Chronological variations in concentrations and isotopic compositions of anthropogenic atmospheric lead in sediments of a remote subalpine pond (1980) (301)
- The occurrence and significance of lead isotopes in pelagic sediments (1962) (282)
- The circumvention of the natural biopurification of calcium along nutrient pathways by atmospheric inputs of industrial lead (1982) (234)
- Natural concentrations of lead in ancient Arctic and Antarctic ice (1981) (187)
- Review of data on eolian fluxes of industrial and natural lead to the lands and seas in remote regions on a global scale (1987) (179)
- Magnitudes and sources of precipitation and dry deposition fluxes of indestrial and natural leads to the North Pacific at Enewetak (1982) (169)
- Vertical concentration profiles of lead in the Central Pacific at 15°N and 20°S (1983) (163)
- Skeletal concentrations of lead in ancient Peruvians. (1979) (150)
- ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LEAD, URANIUM, AND THORIUM IN A PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE (1955) (137)
- Native Copper, Silver, and Gold Accessible to Early Metallurgists (1971) (131)
- Perturbations of the Natural Lead Depth Profile in the Sargasso Sea by Industrial Lead (1983) (129)
- Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition (1986) (125)
- Natural skeletal levels of lead in Homo sapiens sapiens uncontaminated by technological lead. (1991) (122)
- The significance of lead isotopes in detrital feldspar with respect to chemical differentiation within the earth's mantle (1964) (121)
- The occurrence of lead in Antarctic recent snow, firn deposited over the last two centuries and prehistoric ice (1983) (116)
- Changes of lead and barium with time in California off-shore basin sediments (1982) (109)
- Relative levels of natural and anthropogenic lead in recent Antarctic snow (1987) (108)
- Stable lead isotope tracers of air mass trajectories in the Mediterranean region (1987) (107)
- Analysis of lead in polluted coastal seawater (1976) (105)
- Trace elements in the North Atlantic troposphere: Shipboard results of precipitation and aerosols (1990) (100)
- Magnitude of lead flux to the atmosphere from volcanoes (1987) (93)
- Silver Stocks and Losses in Ancient and Medieval Times (1972) (90)
- The Pb207/Pb206 ages of some stone meteorites (1955) (89)
- Lead Aerosol Pollution in the High Sierra Overrides Natural Mechanisms Which Exclude Lead from a Food Chain (1974) (87)
- Anthropogenic lead isotopes in Antarctica (1994) (86)
- Use of stable lead isotopes to characterize the sources of anthropogenic lead in North Atlantic surface waters (1994) (85)
- Response of lead cycling in the surface Sargasso Sea to changes in tropospheric input (1993) (85)
- Primary isochron of zero age for meteorites and the Earth (1962) (81)
- Thallium concentrations in seawater (1985) (81)
- Natural levels of lead and cadmium in a remote mountain stream (1991) (78)
- Concentration of Uranium and Lead and the Isotopic Composition of Lead in Meteoritic Material (1953) (76)
- Continental origin and industrial sources of trace metals in the Northwest Atlantic troposphere (1992) (75)
- Leakage of industrial lead into the hydrocycle (1994) (72)
- Lead in ancient human bones and its relevance to historical developments of social problems with lead. (1987) (71)
- Comparative increases of lead and barium with age in human tooth enamel, rib and ulna. (1991) (71)
- Concentrations of Common Lead in Some Atlantic and Mediterranean Waters and in Snow (1963) (63)
- "ULtra-clean" isotope diultion/mass spectrometic analyses for lead in human blood plasma indicated that most reported values are artificially high. (1980) (58)
- Erratum: Correction to ''Lead precipitation fluxes at tropical oceanic sites determined from 210Pb measurements'' (1982) (57)
- Transport of industrial lead in snow through soil to stream water and groundwater (1990) (57)
- Preliminary data on changes of lead concentrations in Antarctic ice from 155,000 to 26,000 years BP (1987) (54)
- Lead isotopes in manganese nodules (1959) (53)
- The Composition of Meteoritic Matter: III. Phase Equilibria, Genetic Relationships and Planet Structure (1948) (52)
- The occurrence of zinc in Antarctic ancient ice and recent snow (1990) (51)
- Concentration profiles of barium and lead in Atlantic waters off Bermuda (1966) (49)
- Vertical profile of lead isotopic compositions in the north-east Pacific (1986) (49)
- Lead. Environmental Health Criteria 3. (1978) (45)
- The Occurrence of Lead in the Northeast Pacific and the Effects of Anthropogenic Inputs (1980) (44)
- Stable isotopic ratios of lead in surface waters of the Central Pacific (1984) (43)
- The Branching Ratio of K 40 Radioactive Decay (1950) (43)
- Lead in seawater. (1974) (39)
- Changes in cadmium concentrations in Antarctic ice and snow during the past 155,000 years (1993) (37)
- Comparative distributions of alkalies, alkaline earths and lead among major tissues of the tuna thunnus alalunga (1977) (31)
- Occurrence of lead in tuna (1974) (30)
- Thallium in marine plankton (1986) (27)
- The Composition of Meteoritic Matter: I. The Composition of the Silicate Phase of Stony Meteorites (1947) (24)
- Global pollution measured by lead in mid-ocean sediments (1987) (23)
- ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF QUATERNARY LEADS FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN (1953) (23)
- Age Studies of Zircon and Feldspar Concentrates from the Franconia Sandstone (1964) (22)
- Improved techniques for studies of mass balances and fractionations among families of metals within terrestrial ecosystems (1976) (20)
- Mercury and lead in the greenland ice sheet: a reexamination of the data. (1972) (19)
- Characteristics of Lead Isotope Evolution on a Continental Scale in the Earth (1964) (17)
- Direct determination of lead in vostok antarctic ancient ice by laser excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry (1990) (16)
- Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition (1987) (15)
- Analysis of Natural and Industrial Lead in Marine Ecosystems (1980) (15)
- Detection of trace amounts of toxic metals in environmental samples by laser-excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry. Invited lecture (1992) (14)
- The Composition of Meteoritic Matter: II. The Composition of Iron Meteorites and of the Metal Phase of Stony Meteorites (1947) (14)
- Criticism of “Flow of metals into the global atmosphere” (1983) (14)
- Atmospheric Lead in Antarctic Ice during the Last Climatic Cycle (1988) (13)
- Measurements of extreme concentrations of tropospheric hydrogen sulfide (1974) (12)
- Impact of Man on Coastal Marine Ecosystems (1980) (12)
- Lead isotopes in ores and rocks of Butte, Montana (1961) (12)
- The isotopic composition of lead in Easter Island rhyolite (1963) (10)
- Lead in the environment. (1971) (10)
- New mechanisms in lead biodynamics at ultra-low levels. (1993) (8)
- Sulfate in antarctic snow: Spatio-temporal distribution (1979) (8)
- The distribution of lead between sea salt dust, and lead-rich aerosols in the mid South Pacific easterlies at American Samoa (1990) (7)
- Lead in the Modern Environment (1968) (6)
- The Isotopic Composition of Trace Quantities of Lead and Calcium (1951) (5)
- Depolarization of Raman Lines A Further Simplification of Method (1944) (5)
- Concentrations of Metals in a Soil Moisture Film (1973) (4)
- Delineation of separate brain regions used for scientific versus engineering modes of thinking (1994) (4)
- The Toxicological Implications of Biogeochemical Studies of Atmospheric Lead (1980) (3)
- DETERMINATION OF CHEMICAL COMPONENTS AT THE ppB LEVEL IN BOTH POLAR SNOW STRATA. II. DETERMINATION OF SODIUM IN ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC SNOW STRATA: COMPARISON BETWEEN NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS AND ATOMIC ABSORPTION ANALYSIS AFTER APPLICATION OF FREEZING CONCENTRATION TO SAMPLES. (1970) (2)
- RADIOACTIVITY TRANSPORT IN WATER--THE DISPERSION OF RADIONUCLIDES IN OPEN CHANNEL FLOW (thesis). Technical Report No. 2 (1963) (2)
- DETERMINATION OF CHEMICAL COMPONENTS AT THE ppB LEVEL IN BOTH POLAR SNOW STRATA. I. NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS OF CHLORINE IN ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC SNOW STRATA. (1970) (2)
- A new era of science (1981) (2)
- Lead isotopes and uranium contents in experimental Mohole cores (Guadalupe Site) (1962) (2)
- Correction to ‘Lead precipitation fluxes at tropical oceanic sites determined from 210Pb measurements,’ by Settle et al. (1982) (2)
- The Relative Abundance of Some Light Nuclear Species as Determined from the Composition of Stony Meteorites (1947) (1)
- OPEN LETTER TO COLLEAGUES IN THE INSTITUTE OF ANDEAN STUDIES FROM (1976) (1)
- Determination of Toxic Metals in Environmental Objects by Laser Excited Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry (1990) (1)
- Acceptance speech for the V. M. Goldschmidt medal (1981) (1)
- Scientific meaning of meanings: quests for discoveries concerning our cultural ills. (1998) (1)
- Historical changes in integrity and worth of scientific knowledge (1994) (1)
- Duck Soup and Lead (1997) (0)
- Response : Mercury and Lead in the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Reexamination of the Data (1972) (0)
- E Analytical Methodology (1975) (0)
- Interview with Clair C. Patterson (1997) (0)
- My costly lesson in leasing equipment. (1996) (0)
- "Ultra-Clean" Isotope Dilution/Mass SectrometricAnalyses forLeadin HumanBloodPlasmaIndicate ThatMostReportedValuesAreArtificially High (1980) (0)
- Would you have thought of anthrax? (1999) (0)
- Lead aerosol deposition on plant surfaces (1975) (0)
- Reduction of lead in ultimate consumers through biopurification mechanisms (1989) (0)
- Toxic metals in the atmosphere: volume 17, J. O. Nriagu and C. I. Davidson (editors). John & Sons, New York, 1986, 619 p., $99.95 (1986) (0)
- The Abundance of the Elements. Lawrence H. Aller. Interscience, New York, 1961. xi + 283 pp. Illus. $10 (1961) (0)
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