In Memoriam: Paul J. Lioy

About This Article open Citation: Buckley TJ, Goldstein BD, Weisel CP, Zhang JJ, Adgate J, Georgopoulos PG. 2015. In Memoriam: Paul J. Lioy. Environ Health Perspect 123:A226; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510675. Final Publication: 1 September 2015 PDF Version (289 KB) Paul J. Lioy, 1947–2015 Exposure science has lost one of its founders and intellectual champions. Paul J. Lioy passed away unexpectedly on 8 July 2015 at the age of 68. The world has been left a far better place thanks to Lioy’s vision and creativity, enormous scientific contributions, and the many people that he shaped and influenced through teaching, mentoring, and friendships. Lioy’s vision and creativity took on many forms but was centered on a field of study that became known as exposure science—a science that he was instrumental in founding and developing. In 1985 he joined the Rutgers faculty and set out to build a graduate program in exposure science, the first of its kind in the world, within the university’s Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. In 1991 he chaired the National Research Council (NRC) committee that produced Human Exposure Assessment for Airborne Pollutants: Advances and Opportunities, which both initially defined the field and largely established it as a credible line of science and research. In his preface to this report, Lioy wrote about the importance of linking “exposure assessment with the practical application of risk reduction and...
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