Background
Burchfield,, Harry Phineas was born on December 22, 1915 in Pittsburgh. Son of Harry Phineas and Florence Faye (Fearl) Burchfield.
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Burchfield,, Harry Phineas was born on December 22, 1915 in Pittsburgh. Son of Harry Phineas and Florence Faye (Fearl) Burchfield.
AB, Columbia University, 1938. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1956.
Chemist, National Oil Products Company, Harrison, New Jersey, 1938-1940. Research scientist Uniroyal Corporation, Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1940-1950, director plantations research department Indonesia and Malaysia, 1951-1952. Associate director Boyce Thompson Institute Plant Research, Yonkers, New York, 1952-1961.
Institute scientist, manager Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, 1961-1965. Chief pesticides research laboratory United States Public Health Service, Perrine, Florida, 1965-1967. Science director Gulf South Research Institute, New Iberia, Louisiana, 1967-1976.
Adjunct professor chemistry University Southwestern Louisiana, 1967-1977. Professor chemistry, head division molecular biology Medical Research Institute, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1977-1981. Charter member Society University Fellows, 1978, retired.
Principal scientist Research Associates, since 1976. Trustee Gulf Universities Research Consortium, 1971-1976. Member carcinogenesis panel of secretaries Department of Health Commission on Pesticides, 1969.
Member national technical advisory committee pesticides Environmental Protection Agency, 1971-1972, project reviewer research grants, 1972. Consultant carcinogensis National Cancer Institute, 1965-1967. Consultant leprosy Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, 1974, Environmental Protection Agency, since 1976.
Member American Chemical Society (lecture tour speaker 1972-1977), Society Toxicology, American Institute Biological Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Eleanor Emerett Storrs, November 29, 1963. Children: Sarah Storrs, Benjamin Hyde.