Patterson, Robert

Barker J, Binns SP, Johnson DR, Marshall RJ, Oktik S, Ozsan ME, Patterson MN, Ransome SJ, Roberts S, Sadeghi M, Sherborne J, Turner AK, Woodcock JM (1992) Electrodeposited CdTe for thin film solar cells. Int J Sol Energy 12 79-94... 

Even more important, his decision to remain an untenured senior research fellow meant that he could be fired at any time. After the Ethyl Corporation s representatives visited Patterson s office, the petroleum industry upped the pressure a notch. A member of Caltech s board of trustees was a vice president of a petroleum company that used tetraethyl lead in its gasoline. The trustee telephoned Caltech s president, Lee DuBridge, about Patterson. DuBridge in turn phoned Patterson s boss Robert P. Sharp, chair of Caltech s geological and planetary sciences division. 

One day late in his life, Patterson telephoned one of his former postdoctoral students, Robert W. Elias, at the Environmental Protection Agency. The George H. Bush administration was attacking the agency, and Patterson knew how that kind of pressure felt. 

Herbert L. Needleman. Clair Patterson and Robert Kehoe Two Views of Lead Toxicity. Environmental Research. 78 (Aug. 1998) 79-85. A good summary of Patterson versus Kehoe. 

Robert P. Sharp. Vignettes of Clair Patterson. Unpublished manuscript. 

Patterson R, Roberts M, Grammer LC. Insulin allergy re-evaluation after two decades. Ann Allergy 1990 64(5) 459-62. 

Patterson DG Jr, Fingerhut MA, Roberts DW, et al. 1989a. Levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in workers exposed to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. Am J IndMed 16 135-146. 

Robert L. Sheridan, MD, FACS David R. Patterson, PhD Lynne C. Yurko, RN, BSN Patricia W. Gillespie, RN, BSN, MS Barry K. Bennett, LCSW Lynn D. Solem, MD, FACS Marion H. Jordan, MD, FACS Jeffrey R. Saffle, MD, FACS. 

Patterson R, Rosenberg M, Roberts M Evidence that Aspergillus fumigatus growing in the airway of man can be a potent stimulus of specific and nonspecific IgE formation. Am J Med 1977 63 257-262. 

Patterson R, Greenberger PA, Radin RC, Roberts M Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis Staging as an aid to management. Ann Allergy 1986 56 444- 53. 

Patterson R, Greenberger PA, Roberts M The diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in Patterson R, Greenberger PA (eds) Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis. Providence, Oceanside Publications, 1995, pp 1—3. 

Rosenberg M, Patterson R, Mintzer R, Cooper BJ, Roberts M, Harris KE Clinical and immunological criteria for the diagnosis of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Ann Intern Med 1977 86 405-414. 

The authors are grateful to Drs Robert Rush, Tony Polverino and Scott Patterson for their critical comments on the manuscript. 

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