Haren S. Gandhi

Dr. Haren S. Gandhi (May 2, 1941 – January 23, 2010) was an American inventor and engineer, a recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation, noted for his research and inventions in the field of automotive exhaust catalysts. [1] [2] [3] Gandhi was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 "for contributions to the research and development of automotive catalysts".[2] Gandhi held 53 U.S. patents.[2] [4] He was also the director of chemical engineering and a Henry Ford Technical Fellow at the Ford Motor Company. [5] President George W. Bush presented Gandhi with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at the White House in 2003.[1] The National Academy of Engineering called Gandhi "one of the world's foremost authorities in the area of automotive emissions control".[2]

Chronology

1941: born on May 2 in Calcutta, India as Harendra Sakarlal Gandhi
1963: first class honours degree from the Department of Chemical Technology at the University of Bombay (now ICT Mumbai)
1967: joins Ford Motor Company as a research scientist[2]
1967: M.S., the University of Detroit[2]
1971: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, the University of Detroit[2]
1999: elected to the National Academy of Engineering[2]
2003: George W. Bush's the National Medal of Technology and Innovation[1]
2010: died on January 23

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