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newcomb cleveland prize -lrb- 1971 -rrb- 300px biologist , geneticist princeton university , monell chemical senses center fruit and vegetable scent scanner , electronic olfaction research pennsylvania alan gelperin
 alan gelperin university of pennsylvania
alan gelperin

dr. alan gelperin is a scientist and biologist currently at princeton university and monell chemical senses center .
he specializes in electronic olfaction and computational 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 .
