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Robert Perry: The NOx-ious Warrior |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT |
| Author: Arnold B. Heller |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,483 Words, 15,217 Characters |
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Robert Perry's most striking childhood memories stem from the thick brown masses of choking smog that plagued his neighborhood in Whittier, near Los Angeles. The dirty air shut down schools and restricted his football practice. "I couldn't breathe when I ran. I couldn't even see up the street," he recalls.
Perry's Plants, a local nursery in nearby La Puente that was owned by his uncle and where his father was production manager, also fell victim to the smog. Employed at the nursery during high school, he watched helplessly as the pollution killed half the young bedding and flowering plants and turned many others brown during smog alerts.
Thanks to devices on cars and industrial plants, the air quality in southern California has improved, but the ravages of air pollution--incl...
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... the telephone and found the BBC on the line. They wanted to send out a crew to interview him. He promised an answer within a day.
"I'm not interested in a lot of publicity. I'm interested in helping stop air pollution. I enjoyed what I did at Sandia," he says. "One part of me is pulling me back," he adds thoughtfully, "but if this is going to be done properly, I should be involved."
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