The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award

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• The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award

American Association for Aerosol Research
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This award honors professor Sheldon Friedlander
for his leadership as a researcher, teacher, and
pioneer in aerosol science.
The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award recognizes an
outstanding dissertation by an individual who has
earned a doctoral degree. The dissertation can be
in any discipline in the physical, biomedical, or
engineering sciences but has to be in a field of
aerosol science and technology.
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The recipient was nominated by

• Sotiris E. Pratsinis
• Seconded by
• Alfons Baiker
• Sean C. Garrick
• Lutz Mädler
• Louis Schlapbach

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2008 Recipient of the Sheldon K. Friedlander
Award

• Reto Strobel, Ph.D.
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• (ETH Zürich)
• Dr. Strobel performed outstanding dissertation
  research by discovering a new route for one-step
  synthesis of supported noble metal clusters on
  ceramic particles for heterogeneous catalysts
  using flame aerosol technology.
• ..original masterpiece that makes pioneering
  and brilliant contributions to both aerosol
  formation technology and catalysis.
• Nineteen refereed papers and one patent
  application

Photo of Reto Strobel