Doctor who linked kids' lead exposure to health issues dies
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Needleman was also a psychiatrist and had been a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Pitt's School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
[...] he was best known for his research in the 1970s that led companies to remove lead from gasoline and other products after documenting behavior problems, lower intelligence scores and worse school performance in children exposed to lead.