"Pesticides and the Reproduction of Birds"
Magazine article
By: David B. Peakall
Date: April 1970
Source: Peakall, David B. "Pesticides and the Reproduction of Birds." Scientific American, April 1970, 72–78.
About the Author: David B. Peakall (1931–2001) was born in Purley, England, and received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of London in 1956. In 1960, he immigrated to the U.S., where he taught pharmacology at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. Two years later, he became assistant professor of pharmacology at the State University of New York. In 1968, he became senior research associate at Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology.
Introduction
In 1939, a Swiss chemical company, J.R. Geigy, developed dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), a new type of insecticide. Older insecticides, many of them arsenic compounds, killed insects only if the bugs ate the toxin. By...
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