Norbert Baer
Norbert Baer is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts where he instructs in the core curriculum and on risk assessment for archaeologists and art historians.
His research interests include the application of physicochemical methods to the examination and preservation of cultural property. In 1980, he chaired the National Materials Advisory Board Committee on the Conservation of Historic Stone Buildings and Monuments and since then has chaired the National Archives and Records Administration's Preservation Advisory Committee. In 1983-1984, he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow conducting research on the assessment of risk associated with expanded access to cultural property. His most recent publication is “Rational Decision-making in the Preservation of Cultural Property,” Dahlem University Press (2001), N.S. Baer and F. Snickars, Editors.
Baer holds a PhD in physical chemistry from New York University (1969), a master's in physical chemistry from University of Wisconsin (1962), and a bachelor's in chemistry from Brooklyn College (1959).