Name Alan Gelperin | Fields Biology, Genetics | |
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Institutions Princeton University, Monell Chemical Senses Center Alma mater University of Pennsylvania 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 Newcomb Cleveland Prize | ||
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.
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.
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