Philip E. Nelson

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Philip E. Nelson (born 1934

aseptic processing and packaging of food and the use of chlorine dioxide gas and hydrogen peroxide
liquid to commercially sterilize food products and food contact surfaces. He was the Scholle Chair and Professor in Food Processing at the Department of Food Science at in 2005.

He received the World Food Prize in 2007 for his work on aseptic food storage.[2][3]

Nelson was president of the

Nicholas Appert Award in 1995, and the Carl R. Fellers Award
in 2005.

In his early life, Nelson worked at his family's tomato cannery on their farm near Morristown,

PhD
on flavor volatility in canned tomatoes.

Nelson retired from teaching at Purdue in 2010. The Food Science Building at Purdue which he helped design that opened in 1998 was renamed in his honor as the Philip E. Nelson Hall of Food Science.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The World Food Prize" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
  2. ^ "World Food Prize – 2007 World Food Prize Laureate Revolutionized Post-Harvest Technology". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
  3. ^ "Happynews.com, June 18, 2007, reproducing an Associated Press article, "Indiana Scientist Awarded World Food Prize"". Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2007.
  4. ^ "From Tomato King to World Food Prize Laureate" Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
  5. ^ "Purdue honors Nelson". Food Technology. October 2010. p. 94.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by
McClung
World Food Prize
2007
Succeeded by