Over the last several years, Atlantic Legal Foundation has been privileged to represent numerous distinguished scientists, scholars and public officials, listed below, as amici curiae in important cases in federal and state courts.

Science and Technology

ELEANOR B. ADAIR is Senior Scientist, Electromagnetic Radiation Effects, Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base. She is also a senior research scientist and lecturer at Yale University. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology with a minor in optical physics. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.

ROBERT K. ADAIR is Sterling Professor of Physics at Yale University and formerly the chairman of the Department of Physics at Yale University. He was previously Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

BRUCE N. AMES is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California in Berkeley, California and was chairman of that department from 1983-1989. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1950 and his Ph.D., with a biochemistry major, from the California Institute of Technology in 1953. He has received a number of awards, including the Charles F. Mott prize from the GM Cancer research Foundation, the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Chemists, the Society of Toxicology Public Communications Award and the Wadsworth Award, among others.

MARCIA ANGELL, M.D. was Editor in Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She is a medical doctor, board certified in pathology. She is the author of a leading text on pathology and on the interplay of science and law, among other subjects. She is currently on the faculty of the Harvard University School of Public Health. She is a medical doctor, board certified in pathology. She is the author of a leading text on pathology and on the interplay of science and law, among other subjects.

MASON BARR, M.D., is Professor of Pathology (Teratology), Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan, and a member of the Division of Pediatric Genetics at the University of Michigan. He is Director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation/Myelodysplasia Unit (which renders comprehensive care to persons with handicapping birth defects) and Director of the Teratology Unit at the University of Michigan. He has directed studies of the health effects of exposure to PCBs. He is a member of and past president of the Teratology Society, a member of the International Federation of Teratology Studies, the Society for Pediatric Pathology, the Society for Pediatric Research, a fellow of the Environmental Health Institute and numerous other professional and scientific organizations. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 article in peer-reviewed scientific journals, many of them dealing with teratogenicity and prenatal and perinatal conditions.

PHILIPPE BAVEYE is Associate Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University and Visiting Professor, Laboratoire LIP6 CNRS (UMR 7606), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, France). He is also Associate editor of Geomicrobiology Journal, the Journal of Undergraduate Study & Independent Research and consulting associate editor of the Journal of the Chromatographic Society and a Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management.

LEO L. BERANECK holds a doctorate in applied physics from Harvard University. He was a tenured professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He recently served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

NICOLAAS BLOEMBERGEN is a Nobel Laureate in Physics and is Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. From 1980 to 1990 he was Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. From 1974 to 1980 he was Rumford Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Professor Bloembergen has also been awarded the National Medal of Science, the Lorentz Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Frederic Ives Medal, the Oliver E. Buckley Prize, the Stuart Ballantine Medal, the Alexander von Humboldt Medal and the Dirac Medal.

STEPHEN N. BOBO is a mechanical engineer with an international reputation in tire technology, particularly aircraft tires, and the application of nondestructive inspection to a diversity of industrial problems. He holds numerous patents in the field of nondestructive inspection and has written over a hundred papers in that field, advancing tire technology. He is President of Nondestructive Engineering, a consulting organization devoted to application of nondestructive inspection in industry. Under FAA sponsorship, he assisted in development of tire testing and retreading standards, and nondestructive inspection technology guidance for the nation's aircraft fleet. He assisted in development of nondestructive inspection qualification and certification standards for the FAA and wrote FAA documents entitled Nondestructive Inspection for Aircraft (1996); Visual Inspection for Aircraft (1994); and Aircraft Propeller Maintenance and Inspection (1997). Under sponsorship of Sandia National Laboratories he was a consultant on creation and introduction of a new version of the FAA’s primary documents covering oversight of aircraft tires: TSO C62, Aircraft Tires, AC 145-4 Inspection, Retread, Repair, and Alterations of Aircraft Tires, and AC 20-97 Aircraft Tire Maintenance and Operational Practices. He consulted for the US Air Force Landing Gear Dynamics Laboratory, USAF Wright Laboratory on Aircraft Tire Retreading. He is the author of a summary report entitled Nondestructive Inspection of Tires, a survey of nondestructive inspection in the tire industry. He is also the author of a U.S. Government monograph Mechanics of Pneumatic Tires. He has developed two advanced ultra sonic inspection systems, one of which has been used by a major retread equipment manufacturer for use in truck tire retreading. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

DAVID BODANSKY is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Washington.

D. ALLAN BROMLEY is the Sterling Professor of the Sciences and Dean of Engineering at Yale University; during 1989-1993 he was The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Professor Bromley was founder and director of the A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale from 1963 to 1989 and served as chairman of the physics department from 1970 to 1977. He has carried out pioneering studies on both the structure and dynamics of nuclei and is considered the father of modern heavy ion science, one of the major areas of nuclear science. He has published more than 450 papers on science and technology, edited or authored 19 books. Dr. Bromley has received numerous honors and awards, including the National Medal of Science, the highest U.S. scientific award. Prior to his appointment to the Bush Administration, Dr. Bromley served as member of the White House Science Council throughout the Reagan Administration and as a member of the National Science Board in 1988-1989. Dr. Bromley has been a leader in the national and international science and science policy communities. As chairman of the National Academy's Physics Survey in the early 1970's, he contributed in a central way to charting the future of that science in the subsequent decade and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest scientific society, and of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the world coordinating body for that science, Dr. Bromley has been one of the leading spokesmen for U.S. science and for international scientific cooperation. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Royal South African Academy of Sciences. He is also Academician of the International Higher Education Academy of Sciences, Moscow, a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England, and was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

PATRICIA A. BUFFLER is Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the University of California at Berkeley, and is a former Dean of the School of Public Health of the University of California at Berkeley. Among many honors and activities in the field of epidemiology, Dr. Buffler is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and was President of that organization in 1991-1992. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

DONALD E. CARTER is a registered professional engineer in the District of Columbia, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. He is Vice-Chair of the District of Columbia chapter of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers, past President of the Consulting Engineers Council of Washington, D.C., past President of the District of Columbia Council of the Engineering and Architectural Societies, and National Chairman of the Construction Liaison Committee of the American Consulting Engineers Council. He is also a member of the Interprofessional Committee of the American Consulting Engineers Council and the Committee on Advanced Maintenance Concepts of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. He was on the editorial board of American Energy Week and on the board of advisors of Plumbing Engineer.

WILLIAM J. COAD is Chairman of the Board of The McClure Corporation. He is a Vice President of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in 1957. He has been a mechanical/electrical consulting engineer for the past 35 years, prior to which he worked as a design engineer, estimator and corporate officer of a mechanical contracting company. He is a registered professional engineer in 37 states. He has served as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering for 12 years at Washington University in St. Louis, and, for 17 years as an Affiliate Professor teaching graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering and serving as a student thesis advisor in building environmental systems design. Mr. Coad is a member of the Consulting Engineer's Council, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Fellow in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He is a Vice President of ASHRAE. He is the author of ENERGY ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT FOR BUILDING SYSTEMS and he is a co-author of PRINCIPLES OF HEATING, VENTILATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING published by ASHRAE. He is a member of the Board of Editors of Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Magazine.

BERNARD COHEN is Professor Emeritus of Physics and the Environment and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of six books and approximately 275 papers in scientific journals in his field. He was chair of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics and the American Nuclear Society Division of Environmental Sciences. He is the winner of the following awards: the American Physical Society Bonner Prize (for research in nuclear physics), the Health Physics Society Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, the American Nuclear Society Public Information Award, the American Nuclear Society Walter Zinn Award, and the American Nuclear Society Special Award.

ALLAN CORMACK (deceased) was a Nobel Laureate in Medicine and University Professor Emeritus at Tufts University.

ERMINIO COSTA, M.D. is Director of the Fidia-Georgetown Institute for Neurosciences. He holds doctoral degrees in medicine and pharmacology. Previously he was Deputy Chief of the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at the National Heart Institute, head of the section of Clinical Pharmacology and Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Columbia University.

LOUIS ANTHONY COX, JR. is President of Cox Associates, LLC), an independent applied research, training, and consulting company specializing in health, safety, and environmental risk analysis and modeling. Cox Associates' scientists develop and apply computer simulations, statistical and epidemiological risk analyses, and operations research models for decision and risk analyses to improve assessment, communication, and management of risks by public and private sector clients. Dr. Cox is on the Faculty of the Center for Computational Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he is Honorary Full Professor of Mathematics and lectures on topics in biomathematics and quantitative risk assessment. He also is Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he pursues research on biomathematical models of disease causation and exposure-response relations. Dr. Cox holds a Ph.D. in Risk Analysis from M.I.T.

ERNEST L. DAMAN is Chairman Emeritus of Foster Wheeler Development Corporation and he previously served as Chairman of the Board of Foster Wheeler Development Corporation and before that as Director of Research of that company. He is a Past President of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. Daman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Past Chairman of the American Association of Engineering Societies, and a Fellow of the Institute of Energy (England). He is the author of numerous papers, and holds 18 patents. He was responsible for the design and development of a combined steam gas turbine plant, fluidized bed combustion, fast breeder reactor components, supercritical steam generators, environmental control processes, and advanced high-efficiency power generation systems.

ALVAN FEINSTEIN, M.D. (deceased) was Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale University, Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit and director emeritus of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. He was the co-editor of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and author of several seminal books and over 400 articles on clinical epidemiology, clinical biostatistics and bio-medical statistical analysis. He has received the American College of Physicians Award for Health Care Research, the Robert I. Glaser Award for General Internal Medicine, the Gardner Foundation International Award for achievement in medical science and the Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology for "outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics."

KENNETH R. FOSTER is Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

JAIME L. FRIAS, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Director of the Birth Defects Center, Department of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, and Director of the Teratogen Information Service, Department of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. From 1991 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. From 1977 to 1986 Dr. Frias was Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Genetics and Director of the Regional Genetics Program at the University of Florida School of Medicine. From 1986 to 1991, Dr. Frias was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and Chief of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Frias' areas of specialization are genetics, birth defects and teratology. He has published more than 120 articles, more than 30 books or book chapters and almost 100 abstracts in the fields of pediatrics, genetics, teratology and congenital and other birth defects. Dr. Frias is board certified in clinical genetics and clinical cytogenetics. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Society, the Teratology Society, the American Society of Human Genetics, and is a founding member of the American College of Medical Genetics.

WALTER GILBERT is a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Cellular and Developmental Biology at Harvard University. Prof. Gilbert was awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 1979.

BERNARD GITTELMAN has been Professor of Physics at Cornell University for over 30 years. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Physics Society and a Fellow of its Particle Physics Division. He is the author or co-author of over 100 published articles and papers in the field of particle physics, including a paper on monitoring radiation hazards.

SHELDON LEE GLASHOW is a Nobel Laureate in Physics, formerly Mellon Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and currently Arthur G.B. Metcalf Professor of Physics at Boston University. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society; foreign member of the Russian and Korean Academies of Science; founding editor of Quantum Magazine. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Oppenheimer Medal, the Richtmyer Lecture Award, and the Erice Science for Peace Prize.

RONALD E. GOTS, M.D., Ph.D. specializes in toxicology and environmental medicine, and is board certified in toxicology. He is Principal of the International Center for Toxicology and Medicine and Medical Director and President of the National Medical Advisory Service. He is also Lecturer in and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University School of Medicine. He has been Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Class Labeling Project, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Medical Director and Examining Physician of the Occupational Health Units, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau and Immigration and Naturalization Service, Senior Investigator/Chief, Department of Gastroenterology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He was Conference Chair of a conference on "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: State-of-the-Science Symposium" co-sponsored by the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, The Johns Hopkins University/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Educational Resource Center in the Occupational Safety & Health and National Medical Advisory Service.

MICHAEL GOUGH is President of the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology and a consultant in environmental science, toxicology, pharmacology and risk assessment. 7 Atlantic Legal Foundation - Amicus Clients Gough is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis. He is the author of more than 40 papers and articles about human health risk assessment, and is the author of DIOXIN, AGENT ORANGE (Plenum Press, 1986), co-editor of READINGS IN RISK (Johns Hopkins, 1990), and co-author of SILENCING SCIENCE (Cato, 1999). Previously he was Director of Science and Risk Studies at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Gough received his B.A. degree in biology from Grinnell College in 1961, where he was a George C. Baker National Scholar, and his Ph.D. in Biology from Brown University in 1966. He has taught microbiology and did research in molecular biology for about 10 years at Baylor College of Medicine and the State University of New York. He was a Fulbright lecturer in Peru and India. He also served as the Manager of the Biological and Behavioral Sciences Program in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.

JOHN GRAHAM has over 40 years of nuclear technology experience, in the development of fast reactor systems, in nuclear waste technology, and in regulation. At present he is a partner in ETCetera Assessments LLP, with responsibility for safety and quality assessments, managing international programs, technical program evaluation and review and development and training in connection with nuclear facilities; its clients include the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He served as President of the American Nuclear Society (1995-96). He has degrees in physics and mathematics, was a Fulbright Fellow, studying quantum mechanics and mathematics, and has taught Reactor Kinetics, Fast Reactor Safety and Low Level Radiation Health Effects at London University and Carnegie-Mellon University. He has published more than 50 technical papers on nuclear reacor design, nuclear waste storage, safety and reliability technologies and quality assurance.

JOHN D. GRAHAM is Director of the Offcie of Technology at the Office of Management and Budget. He was, until his appointment by President Bush, Director of the Center for Risk Analysis of the Harvard University School of Public Health and Professor of Public Policy and Decision Sciences in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard University School of Public Health. He was previously Director of the Center for Injury Control at the Harvard University School of Public Health. Professor Graham's doctoral dissertation was on "Automobile Safety: An Investigation of Occupant-Protection Policies." He is the author or editor of two books on automobile safety, and the author or co-author of over 100 published articles and papers, including numerous articles on automobile safety and crash protection, and automobile safety regulation and policy. He has been a member of the Highway Safety Study of the Strategic Transportation Research Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council. He was a member of the NHSTA Motor Vehicle Safety Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Transportation. In 1991 he was elected president of the Society for Risk Analysis.

DAVID HAFEMEISTER is Professor of Physics at California Polytechnic State University. 8 Atlantic Legal Foundation - Amicus Clients

LEONARD D. HAMILTON is Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Adjunct Professor of Biometry and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston. He was Head of the Biomedical and Environmental Assessment Group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his doctorate in medicine from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from Cambridge University.

RONALD HART is Director Emeritus of the National Center for Toxicological Research; Distinguished Scientist in Residence, United States Food and Drug Administration (retired). He is currently adjunct professor of Cancer Prevention at the Strang Cancer Research Institute of Rockefeller University. Dr. Hart developed the first direct proof that DNA damage was causal in cancer causation (1974), established much of the modern basis for the role of food intake on aging, degenerative disease occurrence and chaired, among many others, the White House Consensus Policy on Chemical Carcinogenesis.


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