Rosalind B. Marimont is a retired mathematician and scientist, having done research and
development for NIST (or the Bureau of Standards (NBS), as it was then) for 18 years,
until 1960, and NIH for another 19, until her retirement in 1979. She started in
electronics defense work during World War II at NBS, then went on to the logical design of
the early digital computers during the fifties. In 1960, she moved to NIH, and there
studied and published papers on human vision, speech, and other biomathematical subjects.
Since her retirement she has been active in health policy issues - first, the treatment of
chronic pain by integrated mind/body methods, and second, the dishonest war on smoking
which has corrupted scientific research and gravely disorted the nation's health
priorities.
For more than fifty years she has read and evaluated many kinds of scientific studies,
and has sometimes served as a reviewer for scientific journals.
