1. William E Siri was an American biophysicist, mountaineer and environmentalist.
12 Facts About William Siri
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William Siri was born in Audubon, New Jersey where he attended Audubon High School.
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William Siri joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1943 and spent his entire career there.
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William Siri was assigned to the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945.
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William Siri edited the Handbook of Radioactivity and Tracer Methodology, published by the Army Air Corps in 1948.
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William Siri developed an interest in how red blood cells respond to physiological stress, such as exposure to high elevations.
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William Siri was a member of a research team headed by John H Lawrence.
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William Siri was deputy leader and scientific coordinator of the successful American expedition to Mount Everest in 1963 that put five Americans and a Sherpa on the summit, although Siri himself did not make it to the summit.
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William Siri served on the board of directors of the Sierra Club from 1956 to 1974.
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William Siri served as president of the Sierra Club from 1964 to 1966.
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William Siri was the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P Farquhar Mountaineering Award for 1979.
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William Siri died of pneumonia at his home in Berkeley, California after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for a decade.