Kenneth M. Quinn, president of the World Food Prize Foundation, a Des Moines-based organization pronounced Philip E. Nelson as the winner of the World Food Prize at a ceremony at the State Department in Washington. However, Philip E. Nelson will officially receive the $250,000 award at the Iowa State Capitol on Oct. 18 this year.
Who is Philip E. Nelson after all? Philip E. Nelson, 72 has been a professor at Purdue University in Indiana for over 46 years now. It has been almost 25 years since he has been imparting his profound knowledge about methods and equipments that ensure appropriate food availability, food storage and transport techniques to food scientists around the world. His work in this area of food technology began with research into methods of processing tomatoes and from there on he moved to other aspects of food such as bulk storage research, ‘bag-in-box’ system among the many.
Philip E. Nelson bagged the award for his constant efforts in developing techniques, which ensure that nutritional value of fruits and vegetables is maintained intact during their process, transport and storage. He has come up with means and methods that lower post-harvest losses and spoilage and allow successful transport of vegetables and fruits throughout the year and even during time of crisis to any corner of the world. Philip E. Nelson has engineered aseptic techniques of food handling, processing, packaging and delivery that make sure that food-spoiling germs do not survive. Bulk storage of food items that have a short shelf life at ambient temperatures has been possible due to efforts of Philip E. Nelson in development of huge carbon steel tanks coated with an epoxy resin.
There is no doubt now, as to why Philip E. Nelson has been awarded the World Food Prize. Indeed, his works are remarkable and noteworthy.
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