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From page 345... ... , president of the American Water Works Association, en cl president of the American Public Health Association, Abel Wolman was a major contributor not only in the science and engineering of sanitation, pollution control, en cl water resources but also in policy formulation in the broacl area of natural resources. His contributions in public health ranged from provision of water en cl wastewater treatment en cl urban en cl regional planning to protection of the public in the procluction of atomic power, en c! Read the entire page →
From page 346... ... the cleveloping woric! with the WorIcl Health Organization and inclepenclently with countries in the MicicIle East, Latin America, en cl Asia. Read the entire page →
From page 347... ... Focusing on a combination of engineering science en c! practice, Wolman publishecl on the principles of rapicl sancl filtration, on the probabilistic approaches to the assessment of drinking-water supply quality, and on all phases of the behavior of water and wastewater systems from raw water quality to the financing of infrastructure. Read the entire page →
From page 348... ... Responsible for environmental regulation of the waters of MarylancI, Wolman helpecl to clevelop water quality stanciarcis, and, reflecting his interest in water resources planning and management, he was instrumental in establishing regional water en cl wastewater systems as well as the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River in the Washington en cl Baltimore metropolitan regions. Early on, much of his job required convincing cities en cl towns to install water treatment en c! Read the entire page →
From page 349... ... He served as chairman of the Marylancl State Planning Commission en cl was the author of many studies cleating with management of natural resources en cl urban infrastructure. Wolman become chairman of the Water Resources Planning Committee of the National Resources Planning Boarc! Read the entire page →
From page 350... ... In helping to bring into the decision-making process a broad spectrum of professionals from beyond! the fecleral perspective from the Manhattan Project and the early Atomic Energy Commission Wolman was part of an emerging movement expanding both the number en c! Read the entire page →
From page 351... ... He returned regularly to Geneva as an Divisor to the program to urge clevelopment of urban water systems, early on insisting that even the very poor in villages wouIcl pay for goocl water, a view then much contested but now accepted. Abel Wolman hacl a particularly long en cl close relationship with colleagues in Latin America en cl in the Pan American Health Organization. Read the entire page →
From page 352... ... Rare is the national organization or conference touching on water and environmental engineering that has not felt the charm of his analysis of an issue of policy and responsibility. Usually extemporaneous, always felicitous in expression, and punctuated with gentle wit and a soft-spoken sarcasm, the typical Wolman Read the entire page →
From page 353... ... ~ 5 ~ ~ conclucles that at the university Wolman successfully pusher! a reluctant faculty in the School of Hygiene en cl Public Health to accept engineers in their courses and physicians en cl health professionals were subjctecl to engineering courses in water supply en c! Read the entire page →
From page 354... ... Although he was incisive en cl critical in technical matters, I cannot recall his offering personal criticism of anyone." In 1968 the departments of geography and of environmental engineering science joined to become the Department of Geography en cl Environmental Engineering. I became chairman of the new department in 1970, thereby making my father a faculty member in my department. Read the entire page →
From page 355... ... Eng. is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, and Sanitary Engineering and Water Resources. Read the entire page →
From page 356... ... Sadly, your one-time father Abel Wolman Professor Emeritus of Too Many Things A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, Wolman was the recipient of numerous awards inclucling the Secigwick Mecial of the American Public Health Association, a special aware! of the Lasker Foundation, the Tyler Ecology Prize, the Health for All Mecial of WHO, the Horton Mecial of the American Read the entire page →
From page 357... ... 1997. Abel Wolman: Remarks on the occasion of the installation of Charles O'Melia as first occupant of the Abel Wolman chair in environmental engineering at the Tohns Hopkins University. Read the entire page →
From page 358... ... 11:206-13. 1920 The statistical method in problems of water supply quality. Read the entire page →
From page 359... ... 12:1116-20. 1948 Industrial water supply from processed sewage treatment plant effluent at Baltimore, Maryland. Read the entire page →
From page 360... ... 360 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1975 Regional governmental dilemmas. Thomas R Read the entire page →

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... , president of the American Water Works Association, en cl president of the American Public Health Association, Abel Wolman was a major contributor not only in the science and engineering of sanitation, pollution control, en cl water resources but also in policy formulation in the broacl area of natural resources. His contributions in public health ranged from provision of water en cl wastewater treatment en cl urban en cl regional planning to protection of the public in the procluction of atomic power, en c!

Abel Wolman Pages 344-361

Abel Wolman
Pages 344-361