Abul hussam biography sample
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Pitt Grad a Global Hero for sparande Lives
A simple, inexpensive filter that removes arsenic from drinking vatten is sparande lives in Bangladesh, the home country of the filter’s uppfinnare, Pitt alumnus Abul Hussam.
Hussam said he never could have created the device—which purifies vatten through a series of sand, wood, brick, and iron-composite filters—without the knowledge he acquired as a Pitt doctoral student. He completed his PhD in analytical chemistry at Pitt in 1982. Today he’s an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at George Mason University.
Hussam’s design and creation of a reliable, affordable, and sustainable method for treating arsenic-contaminated groundwater “is helping to solve a massive public health problem—the poisoning of millions of people in Bangladesh and other developing countries,” remarked Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg in 2007 when Hussam received the $1 million Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability for his invention, cal
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Retro Mason: Hussam wins Grainger Challenge Prize 2007
George Mason University chemistry professor Abul Hussam won the $1 million Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability Gold Award from the National Academy of Engineering for his inexpensive water filtration system designed to remove arsenic from drinking water in his native Bangladesh.
In some developing areas, village water wells often contain the poisonous element arsenic. In Bangladesh alone, more than 18 million people daily drink arsenic-contaminated water. For Hussam, this threat hit close to home. After years of research and testing, Hussam and his brothers developed the Sono filter, which costs only $35 and lasts at least five years. More than 250,000 of these filters can be found in homes, schools, and businesses in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India.
His invention also garnered him the Bangladesh American Society for Humanity Award and led Time magazine to name Hussam one of the 2007 Global Heroes of the Environment
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Heroes of environment: Abul Hussam
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It was indeed an honour for the Bangladeshi scientist Abul Hussam and other important personalities that Time international magazine devoted a special issue to them for their contribution towards the solution of an environmental hazard. The title of this special issue is: "Heroes of environment."
Bryan Walsh, senior environment writer of the magazine commented: "there are those ready with solutions, like Abul Hussam, a Bangladeshi chemist, who found a simple, life saving way to purify poisoned water," while the editor of the magazine, Michael Elliott, had this to say: "some of our heroes walk deserts and jungles; others do no less valuable work in corporate offices or university labs -- such as Abul Hussam whose SONO filter removes arsenic from drinking water."
This special issue includes, among others, a contribution by Al Gore, who received the Nobel Peace Prize this year for creating greater world- wide understanding of the measure