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Alan Gelperin

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Alan Gelperin
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Known forFruit and vegetable scent scanner, electronic olfaction research
AwardsNewcomb Cleveland Prize (1971)
Scientific career
FieldsBiology, genetics
InstitutionsPrinceton University, Monell Chemical Senses Center

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 received his bachelor's degree in biology from Carleton College in 1962 and went on to get a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania.[1]

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.[2]

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  1. ^ "alan gelperin | Alumni Directory | Carleton College". apps.carleton.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  2. ^ Chartrand, Sabra (November 3, 1997), "Patents; Checkout scanners may soon be ringing up fruits and vegetables based on their scent.", New York Times
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