The Thomas T. Mercer Joint Prize American Association for Aerosol Research & International Society for Aerosols in Medicine

The Thomas T. Mercer Joint Prize “recognizes excellence in the areas of pharmaceutical aerosols and inhalable materials.” The award honors the legacy of Thomas T. Mercer, an outstanding researcher and author, whose work encompassed aerosol physics and chemistry as well as inhalation toxicology, industrial hygiene, and health physics.

2010 Recipient of the Thomas T. Mercer Joint Prize Wolfgang George Kreyling, Ph. D. Deputy Director, Institute of Inhalation Biology Nominated by Dr. Otmar Schmid “...substantial contribution to the field of inhalable materials especially regarding to the deposition of inhaled particles in the lung as well as their clearance from the lung and their bio-distribution throughout the organism” “ one of the initiators of interspecies comparisons of lung clearance kinetics... evolved into a clearance model...ultimately incorporated by ICRP into its particle lung dosimetry model...most widely accepted standard of particle lung dosimetry” Over 160 peer reviewed papers, 16 review paper and chapters, and over 100 invited lectures