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Gerald Addison Rohlich
Pages 298-303

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From page 299...
... The contributions he made in providing safe (drinking water supplies, abating water pollution, and improving the general environment have been variect and numerous. His career spanned four decades of teaching, research, administration, scientific and professional activities, and public service.
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From page 300...
... the faculty of Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor anct advanced in rank to associate professor. His teaching career was interrupted briefly while he served as senior sanitary engineer for the War Department's Office of Engineering from 1943 to 1944 and as chief project englneer with the Elastic Stop Nut Corporation of America in 1945.
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... Some of Dr. Rohlich's later public service activities and contributions to the profession included his chairing the National Research Council Committee on Water Quality Criteria and the Committee on Safe Drinking Water.
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... ; and he was a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His awards included the Harrison Prescott EcIdy Medal for Noteworthy Research, the Benjamin Smith Reynolds Medal for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Wisconsin, the Karl Emil Hilgard Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers for research in hydraulic engineering, the George Warren Fuller Award of the American Water Works Association, and the Gordon Maskew Fair Award presented by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers for his achievements, leadership, and contributions to the total environmental effort.
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... His dedication to cleveloping and implementing solutions to the problem of maintaining ant! improving the quality of man's environment was sincere and substantial.
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