Lauren B. Hitchcock
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Lauren B. Hitchcock
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Lauren Blakely Hitchcock was a chemical engineer and early opponent of air pollution. Hitchcock became president of the Air Pollution Foundation of Los Angeles in 1954, which had been formed to fight smog. Hitchcock identified automobile exhaust and backyard incinerators as the cause, and advised that significant steps would be needed--comparable to wartime efforts--to fight the problem in a meaningful way. In 1963, Hitchcock was appointed to the faculty at University at Buffalo, where his work
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Chemical engineer
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