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Werner Stumm
Pages 222-227

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... At EAWAG, he became interested for the first time in water treatment and water quality protection. Seeking to deepen his understanding of water chemistry, in 1954 and 1955 he spent a postdoctoral year at Harvard, in the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, pursuing independent and unusually innovative research on iron corrosion in natural waters, which resulted in a highly original paper, "Calcium Carbonate Deposition at Iron Surfaces." 223
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... Among the leacling research accomplishments of that period in Werner Stumm's career were his work on rates of iron corrosion in relation to water chemistry, kinetic laws for iron and manganese oxidation in water, chemical aspects of coagulation processes in water, buffering in natural waters, the role and control of algal nutrients in water pollution, polymer flocculation of microorganisms, and chemical aspects of rapid filtration processes for particle removal. It is interesting to note that of the group of Ph.D.
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... His own research had two principal goals: quantitative description of solid-water interface processes in natural waters; and understanding how to better protect aquatic systems under the stress of human activities. For protection of aquatic systems, Stumm urged an ecosystem perspective for all aquatic systems, integrating understanding of pertinent chemical, geochemical, biological and physical processes.
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... Werner Stumm played a seminal role in developing the surface complex formation model of adsorption to particles in water. The principal findings from Stumm's research were based primarily on macroscopic equilibrium and kinetic experiments, interpreted through simple chemical models, augmented by then-available tools for molecular observations, such as electronnuclear double resonance and IR spectroscopy.
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... He was recognized with the American Chemical Society's Monsanto Prize for Pollution Control in 1977, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in l9X6, the Simon W Freese Award of the Arnerican Society of Civil Engineers in 1991, the Goldschmidt Medal of the Geochemical Society in 199S, and the Stockholm Water Prize in 1999.
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