Michele S. Gerber, Ph.D.
DR. MICHELE S. GERBER is the author of On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, the only comprehensive history of America's first plutonium production complex. The book was re-issued in its third edition in January 2002, with a new Epilogue about Hanford Site nuclear waste cleanup.
Michele Gerber earned a Ph.D. in history with highest honors from the State University of New York at Albany. For the past 15 years, she has specialized in Hanford Site research, and has worked at the Site in various historical and public information positions for 12 years.
She participated in early efforts to obtain declassification of Hanford Site documents, and served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Declassification. She consulted to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Hanford Thyroid Disease Study. She is now the Historic Resources expert member of the Hanford Reach National Monument Federal Advisory Committee.
She was the Curtis Hill Distinguished Lecturer of 2001 at the Washington State Historical Society, and has won numerous other awards and honors.
She speaks about the Hanford Site all over the world.
In addition to her book On the Home Front, she is the author of An American First (a 1976 book), and thousands of pages of documents and articles on Hanford's history.