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Research through radioactive tracer materials offers
- promise in the study of biochemical reactions, to chart ocean
re and air ourrents, and to study the interrelationships of marine
-animals, © Such investigations may be possible only within the
‘next 10 to 20 years since inafeasing radioactive contamination
of the 80@ @nd atmosphere, as atomic activity rises, may make
detection of these tracers impossible @gainst the hightened
baakground,
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The findings announced today were made possible by
financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation,
The Atomic
Energy Commission and the Department of Defense cooperated in
the continuing study; the reports, however, are private and
independent,
"he study committees and their chairmen are:
Genetics,
Dr, Warven Weaver, Vice President for the Natural and Medical
Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation; ‘Pathology, Dr. Shields
Warren,, Director of the New England Deaconess Hospital in
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Professor A. Geoffrey
Norman, of She Department of Botany of the University of Michigan;
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Oceanography and Fisherles, Roger Revelle, Director of the
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, California;
Meteorology, Harry Wexler, Director of Meteorological Research
of the U, S&S, Watther Bureau; and Disposal ard Dispersal of
Radioactive Wastes,
Abel Wolman, Professor of Smitary Engineering
The John Hopkins Iniversity.
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