Abel Wolman
Abel Wolman · Science & Medicine
Standardized the chlorination of drinking water — credited with ~91 million lives saved
1892, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1989, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
United States
Abel Wolman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Standardized the chlorination of drinking water — credited with ~91 million lives saved
Wolman was a sanitary engineer who, with chemist Linn Enslow, standardized the chlorination of public drinking water in the 1910s–1920s, a method credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide by preventing waterborne disease. He was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Baltimore.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the creators of history's greatest lifesaving advances (ScienceHeroes.com)
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Standardized the chlorination of drinking water — credited with ~91 million lives saved
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the creators of history's greatest lifesaving advances (ScienceHeroes.com)
