LC control no. | n 86860364 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Colborn, Theo |
Variant(s) | Colborn, Theodora Emily |
Associated place | Madison (Wis.) |
Located | Colorado |
Birth date | 1927 |
Death date | 20141214 |
Place of death | Paonia (Colo.) |
Field of activity | Zoology Epidemiology Toxicology Water chemistry Freshwater ecology Pharmacy |
Affiliation | TEDX University of Wisconsin--Madison |
Profession or occupation | Scientists |
Found in | nuc86-96165: Her The use of the stonefly, ... 1985 (hdg. on WU rept.: Colborn, Theo; usage: Theo[dora Emily] Colborn) Great Lakes, great legacy? c1989: CIP t.p. (Theodora E. Colborn) Denver post WWW site, Dec. 19, 2014 (in obituary posted Dec. 18, 2014: Research scientist Theo Colborn dies at 87 in Paonia; died Sunday [Dec. 14, 2014] after devoting much of her life to shining light on a category of chemical that slowly disrupts the hormonal systems of humans and animals and leads to reproductive, development, neural and behavorial problems; turned her spotlight on the endocrine-disrupting chemicals used in the drilling industry; had made her home near Paonia, on the Western Slope; started the nonprofit research organization the Endocrine Disruption Exchange in 2003; Colborn, a pharmacist and dedicated birder who earned her Ph.D. in zoology when she was 58, turned her attention to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the late 1980s while she was studying the effects of chemical pollutants on Great Lakes birds and other wildlife) TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange WWW site, Dec. 19, 2014 (Theo Colborn, 1927-2014; Theodora (Theo) Emily Decker Colborn; earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology (distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry); an M.A. in Science at Western State College of Colorado (fresh-water ecology); and a B.S. in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy) |
Associated language | eng |