Message from David Y. H. Pui, IARA President (2006-2010)
With IARA Board’s approval, I am pleased to unveil the inaugural edition of the “Aerosol Pioneers” on the IARA website. The project started one year ago when I suggested the idea to the IARA Board. The Board endorsed it with enthusiasm. I would like to particularly thank the outstanding efforts by the authors of the biographies. Editor Gilmore J. Sem has deliberately not provided rigid guidelines to the authors so that the articles are original, diverse and interesting to read. I would also like to thank Chuen-Jinn Tsai for preparing the biographies for posting and for maintaining the IARA website. Many of the Pioneers have already been memorialized by the Aerosol Awards conferred regularly by our member associations. We hope that these biographies will serve as a constant source of inspiration for our younger colleagues.
David Y. H. Pui, September 9, 2009, at the European Aerosol Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany
List of aerosol pioneers:
1839-1919 John Aitken, by Ian Colbeck
1872-1917 Marian Wilhelm Theofil von Smoluchowski, by Wladyslaw W. Szymanski
1877-1954 August Schmauß by Ruprecht Jaenicke
1895-1982 Nikolai Albertovich Fuchs, by Alexander and Vasily Kirsch
1901-1987 David Sinclair, by Earl O. Knutson
1907-1988 Jean Bricard, by Denis Boulaud
1910-1994 Charles Norman Davies, by Ian Colbeck
1912-1996 Christian Junge, by Ruprecht Jaenicke
1917-1998 Kouichi Iinoya, by Dr. Yoshida
1925-1983 Kenneth Thomas Whitby, by Evan R. Whitby
1926-1995 Senichi Masuda, by Dr. Mizuno
1927-2007 Othmar Preining, by Helmuth Horvath
1927-2007 Sheldon K. Friedlander, by Pratim Biswas
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