Background
Nelson, Norton was born on February 6, 1910 in McClure, Ohio, United States. Son of William and Bertha C. (Ballmer) Nelson.
Toxicologist Environmental medicine educator
Nelson, Norton was born on February 6, 1910 in McClure, Ohio, United States. Son of William and Bertha C. (Ballmer) Nelson.
AB, Wittenberg University, 1932. Honorary Doctor of Science, Wittenberg University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cincinnati, 1938.
Research assistant, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, 1934-1938;
research associate, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, 1946-1947;
biochemist, May Institute Medical Research, Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, 1938-1942;
assistant professor biochemistry, U. Cincinnati, 1946-1947;
associate professor industrial medicine, New York University, 1947-1953;
director research Institute Industrial Medicine, New York University, 1947-1953;
professor environmental medicine, New York University, 1953-1980;
director, Institute Environmental Medicine, New York University Medical Center, 1954-1980 (on leave 1966-1967);
department chairman environmental medicine, Institute Environmental Medicine, New York University Medical Center, 1954-1980;
director Lanza laboratories, School Medicine, New York University, Tuxedo, 1962-1966;
provost University Hghts. campus, New York University, 1966-1967;
chief chemistry department, Armored Medical Biochemists
director, New York University Valley Center, 1967-1980. Consultant National Science Foundation, 1971-1972, 74-75, Food and Drug Administration, 1972-1977. Chairman advising committee on protocolsfor safety evaluation.
Member commission on environmental physiology National Research Council, Chairman of Commission air quality standards in space flight, member committee research in lifesci., commission on nitrate accumulation, 1970-1972. Member Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1962-1977, consultant, from 1977. Consultant Commision on Environmental Health, 1962-1965.
Member Mayor's Technology Advisory Committee on Radiation, Mayor's Science and Technology Advisory Council, 1966-1974. Member Executive Committee New York City Health ResearchCouncil, chairman environmental pollution working group, 1965-1972. Advisor information and member of advisory committee National Institute Environmental Health Science, National Institutes of Health, 1967-1971, 74-77, consultant, 1972-1980, chairman task force on research planning in environmental health science, 1969-1970, chairman 2d task force, 1975-1976.
Member Cancer Cause and Prevention advising committee National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 1971-1973, Carcinogenesis Program (Etiology), 1972-1973, Clearinghouse on Environmental Carcinogenesis, 1976-1980. Member pesticide advising committee Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970. Member panel on herbicides United States Office Science and Technology, 1969, committee technical forecasting behalf environmental health, 1970, chairman task force on hazardous trace substances, 1970.
Member panel on chemicals and health President's Science Adv.Com., 1970-1973. Member hazardous materials advising committee Environmental Protection Agency, 1970-1974, consultant science advisory board, 1974-1975, chairman environmental health advising committee, 1975-1980. Member roster consultant to administrator Energy Research and Development Administration, 1976-1978.
Chairman conference on protocolsfor evaluating chemicals in environmental National Research Council, National Academy Sciences, 1972. Member White House Task Force on Air Pollution, 1969, Environmental Studies Board, 1974-1977. Chairman human ecology commission International Association Ecology.
Member Commission Natural Resources, 1977-1980. Member expert panel on carcinogenicity International Union Against Cancer. Member committee motor vehicle emission World Health Organization,1964-1968, member committee microchem. pollutants, 1964-1968.
Chairman Expert Com.Manual Toxicity of Chemicals, 1975-1977. Member panel United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Joint Common for Health Cooperation, from 1972, United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, 1972-1978. Member subcommittee toxicology of metals Permanent Commission and International Association Occupational Health, from 1972.
Visiting committee department nutrition and food science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971-1974. Member Milbank Memorial Fund Common for Study Higher Education Public Health, 1972-1975. Member energy policy project advisory board Ford Foundation, 1972-1974.
Member Hudson Basin Project advisory board Rockefeller Foundation, 1973-1975, President's biomedical Research Panel, chairman subcluster on environmental health and toxicology, 1975. Chairman Board Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards, National Academy Sciences, 1977-1980, ex-officio member, 1981. Board directors Foundation for Advanced Education in Science.
Trustee Tuxedo Memorial Hospital, 1957-1975. Trustee Industrial Health Foundation, 1969-1975, science adviser, from 1976. Member visiting committee board overseers Harvard University School Public Health, 1973-1976.
Member advisory committee on occupational safety and health education Resource Center, from 1980. Chairman medical and science advisory board Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, 1960-1970, chairman, 1968-1970. Member research advisory committee Boyce Thompson Institute Plant Research.
Advisory council department statistics Princeton University, 1973-1976. Board directors New York Lung Association, 1974-1977. Member biomedical and environmental science advisory committee Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1976-1980.
Chairman panel environmental health National Institutes of Health Fogarty Center, American College Preventive Medicine, 1975. Consultant National Science Foundation, 1971-1972, 74-75. Member project 4 committee Science Committee Problems of Environmental, International Council of Scientific Unions, National Research Council, 1974-1977.
Chairman board science counselors National Toxicology Program, from 1980. Chairman carcinogenesis advisory panel Office Technology Assessment, United States Congress, 1979-1981. Chairman and member executive committee Science Group on Methodologies for Safety Evaluation of Chemicals, from 1979.
Member science committee on problems of environmental World Health Organization, from 1979. Member United Nations Environmental Programme. Member committee health related effects of marijuana use National Research Council, from 1980.
Senior member Institute Medicine, 1981. Member health research review committee State of New York, from 1977. Co-chairman coal technologies, health and environmental effects of energy technologies Federal Interagy.
Committee, Department Energy, Department Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, 1979-1980. Member environmental research and development subpanel energy research advisory board Department Energy, from 1980. Vice president John B. Pierce Foundation, from 1983.
Served to lieutenant colonel Sanitary Corps, Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member American Industrial Hygiene Association, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Harvey Society, Air Pollution Control Association, Ecology Society of America, Tarrytown History Society (president 1958-1960), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Occupational Medicine (honorary), American Chemical Society, American Public Health Association (Committee occupational health and safety), American Society Biological Chemists, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (committee environmental pharmacology), Society Occupational and Environmental Health, New York Academy of Sciences (honorary, life, Gordon Y. Billard award 1976), Industrial Hygiene Round Table, Society Toxicology (honorary), Sigma Xi.
Married Rose S. Cohen, September 3, 1936. Children: Robert, Margaret, Richard.