Background
Weiss, Charles Manuel was born on December 7, 1918 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and Fannie (Levy) Weiss.
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Charles Manuel Weiss
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Bachelor of Science, Rutgers University, 1939; postgraduate, Rutgers University, 1939-1940; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1950.
Career
Fellow in marine microbiology, research associate in marine biology Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1939-1947. Chemist, biologist Baltimore Harbor Project, Johns Hopkins University Department San Engineering, 1947-1950. Basin biologist division water pollution control United States Public Health Service, New York City, 1950-1952.
Biologist medical laboratories Army Chemical Center, Edgewood, Maryland, 1952-1956. Professor environmental biology University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1956-1989, professor emeritus, since 1989, creator/sponsor C. & S. Weiss Urban Livability program, since 1992. Consultant limnology Duke Power Company, 1980-1994.
Member ad hoc panel waste treatment Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1966-1968, chairman panel management of spacecraft solid and liquid wastes, 1968-1969, subcommittee atmosphere and water contaminants of manned spacecraft, 1971. Member triennial water quality standards review committee North Carolina Department Natural Resources and Community Development, 1982-1983. Consultant National Health Service, Santiago, Chile, 1971.
Member Graduate Education Advancement Board, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 2001.
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Member Chapel Hill Planning Board, 1969-1976, chairman, 1970-1972, 75-76. Trustee Chapel Hill Preservation Society, 1972. Board directors Triangle Opera, 1986, 89, 91-2002.
Member advisory council Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 1990-1991, 97-98, trustee, 1991-1997, 98—. Board directors The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, 1997-2005, honorary life member, since 2005. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association, New York Academy of Sciences.
Member American Association of University Professors (chapter president 1980-1981, president North Carolina conference 1982-1983, William S. Tacey award Assembly of State Conferences 1992), American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Fisheries Society, American Society Limnology and Oceanography, Ecological Society of America, Society International Limnologie, Water Pollution Control Federation (chairman research committee 1966-1971), American Water Works Association (chairman subcommittee water quality sampling for quality control in reservoirs 1978-1980), American Society Microbiology, Sigma Xi, Delta Omega.
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Married Shirley Friedlander, June 7, 1942.
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American