Oral history interview with William P. Elliott, 1991 April 24.

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Oral history interview with William P. Elliott, 1991 April 24.

Brief review of education and work: interest in carbon dioxide; program administration under David Slade at Atomic Energy Commission/Department of Energy, ca. 1974-1982, and development of Slade's climate change research program; advice from A. Weinberg; studies at NOAA Air Resources Laboratory of carbon dioxide emissions; controversies over fate of carbon dioxide.

Transcript, 26 pp.

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