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Alan Gelperin

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Name
  
Alan Gelperin

Fields
  
Biology, Genetics


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Known for
  
Fruit and vegetable scent scanner, electronic olfaction research

Education
  
University of Pennsylvania (1966)

Residence
  
Pennsylvania, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Notable awards
  

Dr. Alan Gelperin is a scientist and biologist currently at Princeton University. He is an emeritus faculty member at Monell Chemical Senses Center. He specializes in electronic olfaction and computational neuroscience.

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He is most notable for his efforts in creating robots with electronic noses which can localize odors, and for the invention of a supermarket fruit and vegetable scanner that does not use barcodes but instead scans by scent.

References

Alan Gelperin Wikipedia


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