Background
Tyson, Peter was born on May 25, 1960 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Noel Jon Tyson and Patricia McCurdy.
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Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945)
(Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and...)
Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science during the nineteenth century. Born in Glasgow and initially trained for a career in the Church of Scotland, Smith instead went on to study chemistry in Germany under Justus von Liebig. On his return to Manchester in the 1840s, Smith's strong Calvinist faith lead him to develop a strong concern for the insanitary environmental conditions in Manchester and other industrial towns in Britain. His appointment as Inspector of the Alkali Administration in 1863 enabled him to marry his social concerns and his work as an analytical chemist, and this book explores his role as Inspector of the Administration from its inception through battles with chemical manufacturers in the courts, to the struggle to widen and tighten the regulatory framework as other harmful chemical nuisances became known. This study of Smith's life and work provides an important background to the way that 'chemical' came to have such negative connotations in the century before publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It also offers a fascinating insight into the changing landscape of British politics as regulation and enforcement of the chemical industries came to be seen as necessary, and is essential reading for historians of science, technology and industry in the nineteenth century, as well as environmental historians seeking background context to the twentieth-century environmental movements.
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The Eighth Continent:: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
(Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, is a land ...)
Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. Where animals and plants that went extinct elsewhere millions of years ago -- tenrecs, fossa, upside-down trees -- thrive in a true Lost World. Where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the island's eighteen tribes are collectively known, come alive in rollicking ceremonies known as "turning the bones." Here, join Peter Tyson on a diverting odyssey with four scientists out to plumb the natural and cultural mysteries of this extraordinary land.
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The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380975777/?tag=2022091-20
Acid Rain (Earth at Risk)
(-- Designed to promote discussion and foster a greater un...)
-- Designed to promote discussion and foster a greater understanding of our most pressing environmental problems-- Striking photographs dramatically illustrate environmental hazards
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791015777/?tag=2022091-20
Groucho Marx (Pop Culture Legends)
(Book by Tyson, Peter)
Book by Tyson, Peter
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Peter Tyson
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Bachelor in English, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1982.
Career
Assistant editor Omni Magazine, New York City, 1983—1986. Senior staff writer Interleaf, Inc., Boston, 1988—1989. Managing editor Earthwatch Magazine, Watertown, 1989—1996, senior editor, 1996—1998.
Contributing editor Technology Review Magazine, Cambridge, 1993—1997. Editor-in-chief Nova Online, Boston, since 1998.
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Acid Rain (Earth at Risk)
(-- Designed to promote discussion and foster a greater un...)
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The Eighth Continent:: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
(Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, is a land ...)
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Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945)
(Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and...)
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Groucho Marx (Pop Culture Legends)
(Book by Tyson, Peter)
- The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
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Acid Rain (Earth at Risk)
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Membership
Member of New England Science Writers, National Association Science Writers.
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Connections
Married Melissa Banta (divorced). Children: Olivia, Nicholas 1 stepchild Christopher Legare.
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American
Education
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1982
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1983 - 1986
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1988 - 1989
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1989 - 1996
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1993 - 1997
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1998