Commentary
Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels, 90, bioenergy leader
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* Corresponding author: Douglas E Eveleigh eveleigh@aesop.rutgers.edu
1 Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA
2 116 Freedom Street, Hopedale, MA, USA
3 Biochemistry & Micxrobiology, SEBS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
4 Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
Biotechnology for Biofuels 2009, 2:22 doi:10.1186/1754-6834-2-22
Published: 1 September 2009Abstract
Mary E H Mandels, who spearheaded the US Army's national bioconversion studies for four decades and was an early proponent of conversion of waste biomass to readily bioconvertible sugars for the production of chemicals and transportation fuels such as ethanol, died 17 February 2008 at Natick, MA, USA. She was 90.