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Baker was employed by the U.S. Army Climatic Research Laboratory, a part of the Quartermaster Corps U.S. in Natick, Massachusetts where he conducted “heat stress research on military personnel at Fort Lee, Virginia (hot-wet) and in the Yuma Desert (hot-dry), and cold stress at Fort Churchill, Canada, on Hudson Bay”. His PhD dissertation focused on his research, lasting from 1952-1956, in Yuma and Fort Lee.