Background
Silverman, Leslie was born on April 27, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Hyman and Kate (Bernstein) Silverman.
Silverman, Leslie was born on April 27, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Hyman and Kate (Bernstein) Silverman.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanics Engineering with high honors, University of Illinois, 1936. Master of Science in Mechanics
Engineering, Rutgers University, 1938.
South.M. Entertainment in Engineering (Gordon McKay scholar 1937-1938), Harvard, 1938, Doctor of Science, 1943.
Graduate assistant mechanic engineering Rutgers University, 1936-1937. Faculty Harvard, since 1938, associate professor industrial hygiene engineering at university, 1948-1958, professor engineering in environmental hygiene, director radiological hygiene program, since 1958, head department industrial hygiene School Public Health and Graduate School Arts and Sciences, since 1961. Visiting lecturer Massachusetts Institute Technology, U. Cincinnati, University of Michigan, Michigan State University Consultant engineer Atomic Energy Commission, Chemical Corps of the United States Army, International Atomic Energy Agency, United States Public Health Service.
Member of commission toxicology and industrial hygiene International Union Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Research and engineering advisory panel of medical science Department Defense, 1959-1961. National advising committee community air pollution United States Public Health Service, 1957-1960.
Member of advisory committee reactor safeguards Atomic Energy Commission, since 1958, chairman, 1960. Technical adviser United States delegation International Conference Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955.
Atomic Energy Commission delegate EURATOM meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 1960.
Trustee American Academy Sanitary Engineers Certified Health Physicist, 1960, Industrial Hygienist, 1962. Registered profile engineer, Massachusetts Diplomate American Board Sanitary Engineering (trustee intersoc. board since 1962).
Member of commission toxicology and industrial hygiene International Union Pure and Applied Chemistry. Member of advisory committee reactor safeguards Atomic Energy Commission, since 1958, chairman, 1960. Member American Industrial Hygiene Association (director) 1957-1960, president elect 1966), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute Chemical Engineers, American Nuclear Society, American Society Testing Materials, American Meteorological Society, American Society Engineering Education, Health Physics Society (director 1961-1964), Air Pollution Control Association (Richard Beatty Mellon award 1966), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, Pi Mu Epsilon, Delta Omega, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Epsilon Pi.
Married Eleanore Riffin, August 10, 1941. Children: Hugh Jerald, Juliet, Mary Linda, Leslie Riffin.