Barry Commoner - Early Life

Early Life

Commoner was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 28, 1917, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He received his bachelor's degree in zoology from Columbia University (1937) and his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University (1938, 1941)."

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