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Columbia varsity professor P Somasundaran is

elected Chair of Hoover Board of Award

OUR BUREAU Foreign Fellow elected to the Royal sion on decontamination of viruses to
Society of Canada. He was awarded control Coronavirus.
NEW YORK, NY
the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor” in He is the author/editor of 15
r. Ponisseril Somasundaran 1990. In March 2010, the President of books and of over 700 scientific
has been elected Chair of India awarded him the Padma Shri, publications and patents and editor
Dthe Hoover Board of Award. one of the highest civilian honors. of Encyclopedia of Surface & Col-
The award, established in 1929, com- He was appointed to the Board loid Science and the Honorary Edi-
memorates the civic and humanitar- of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) US tor-in-chief of the international jour-
ian achievements of engineers. The EPA in 2014 and chair of its Chem- nal “Colloids and Surfaces”. He has
board consists of representatives from ical Safety and Sustainability com- served on many professional com-
the American Institute of Chemi- mittee as well as the Hazardous risk mittees including National Research
cal Engineers; American Institute of committee and reappointed to the Council Panels, National Science
Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Board in December 2017. Foundation, Department of Interi-
Engineers; American Society of Civil He was appointed as an Honor- or, Department of Energy, Nation-
Engineers; American Society of Me- ary Professor at the Central Univer- al Institute of Dental Research and
chanical Engineers; and Institute of sity of Technology of China, an Hon- National Institute of Environmental
Electrical and Electronics Engineers. orary Research Advisor at the Beijing Health Sciences Advisory panels. He
Dr. Somasundaran is the La von He was inducted in 1985 into Research Institute of Mining & Met- was the Chairman of the Board of the
Duddleson Krumb Professor of Min- the National Academy of Engineer- allurgy, Beijing, visiting professor/sci- Engineering Foundation (1993-95).
eral Engineering and Director of the ing, among the highest professional entist at the University of Melbourne The award is named in honor of
Langmuir Center for Colloids and distinctions that can be conferred to and at the Indian Institute of Science. Herbert Hoover, who led the effort to
Interfaces at Columbia University. an engineer and later to the Nation- His research has been concerned feed millions of Belgian and French
Professor Somasundaran re- al Academy of Inventors, Chinese with a wide spectrum of environ- refugees during World War I. It recog-
ceived his M.S. and Ph.D. from the National Academy of Engineering, mental problems including Greener nizes great, unselfish, non-technical
University of California, Berkeley. the Indian National Academy of Chemistry, pollution control and re- services by engineers to humanity. Past

After 5 years with the International Engineering, the Russian Academy mediation, controlled release in per- recipients have included Jimmy Carter,
Minerals and Chemical Corporation of Natural Sciences and the Balkan sonal care, sludge treatment, waste Dwight Eisenhower, Lillian Gilbreth, A
and Reynolds Industries, he joined Academy of Mineral Technology Sci- water treatment, and nanotoxicity P J Abdul Kalam, N.R. Narayana Mur-
the Columbia University faculty. ences. More recently he was the sole and now, rising quietly to the occa- thy, and Steve Wozniak.

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