The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award

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• The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award

American Association for Aerosol Research
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Sheldon Friedlander was born in New York City.
He attended NYC public schools, served in the US
Army, and received a BS at Columbia, a MS at MIT,
and a Ph.D. at Illinois. He was introduced to
aerosols at the Harvard School of Public Health
where he worked on nuclear reactor safety. He
served on the faculty at Columbia and at Johns
Hopkins in 1954, Caltech in 1964, and UCLA in
1978. Still scientifically active, Friedlander
mentors young scientists and campaigns tirelessly
for the recognition of aerosol science and
technology (AST) as an enabling discipline.
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Pioneer Contributions of Friedlander? Particle
deposition from turbulent gases?
Self-preserving size distributions? Aerosol
filtration theory? Receptor modeling using
chemical element balances for source
resolution? Single particle chemical analysis
using aerosol beams and mass spectrometer?
Aerosol reaction engineering (coined by him)
for synthesis of fine particle products?
Dynamic behavior of nanoparticle chain
aggregates? Smoke, Dust and Haze (1977,
2000)? A founder of AAAR
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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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2005 Recipient of the Sheldon K. Friedlander
Award
Athanasios Nenes Asst. Prof. in the Schools of
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of
Technology Thanos developed and solved the
governing mass and energy balance equations for
CCN instruments and was able, for the first time,
to clearly explain the behavior of the array of
instruments available. developed a
physically-based parameterization that relates
cloud properties to the aerosol upon which the
cloud forms.