- Alan Gelperin
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fields = Biologist, Geneticist
workplaces =Monell Chemical Senses Center
alma_mater =University of Pennsylvania
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known_for = Fruit and vegetable scent scanner, electronic olfaction research
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footnotes =Dr. Alan Gelperin is a
scientist andbiologist currently atMonell Chemical Senses Center . He specializes inelectronic olfaction andcomputational neuroscience .He is most notable for his efforts in creating robots with electronic noses which can localize odors, and for the invention of a
supermarket fruit and vegetable scanner that does not use barcodes but instead scans by scent. [Citation
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title = Patents; Checkout scanners may soon be ringing up fruits and vegetables based on their scent.
newspaper = New York Times
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year = 1997
date = November 3
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E5DF1530F930A35752C1A961958260]References
External links
* [http://monell.org/Refs/gelperinrefs.htm Dr. Gelperin's publications]
* [http://flavor.monell.org/~agelperin/ Dr. Gelperin's homepage]
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