2006 Donald E. Cummings Memorial Award Lecture Industrial Hygiene: The Founders, The Pioneers, and The Next Generation

The Donald E. Cummings Memorial Award was established in 1943 as a tribute to Donald E. Cummings, AIHA's third president. The award is given for outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of the profession of industrial hygiene.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I owe all my success in my career (and my life) to my lovely, supportive wife, Barbara. In addition, I owe special thanks to Tom Hethmon for many helpful suggestions that resulted in key improvements in concepts, wording, and structure of both my Cummings presentation and this paper. I also would like to thank Harry Ettinger for nominating me for this award, and both Howard Cohen and my wife for timely and useful reviews of this manuscript.

Notes

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3. His paper on OELs actually appeared in the AIHA Journal. During the first 5 years of the AIHA Journal (1941–1946) it was published as a quarterly supplement in the Industrial Journal of Medicine, Volume 11, pp. 936–946 (1945). Warren Cook was the editor of the journal during those years. The first full printing of the AIHA Journal as a stand-alone publication was as Volume 6 in 1946.

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