(Israel21c) Professor Eugene Rosenberg of Tel Aviv University, who pioneered the use of bacteria to clean up oil pollution in oil tankers, pipelines, and on beaches, has been named the winner of the annual Proctor and Gamble Award for Applied and Environmental Microbiology awarded by the American Society of Microbiology. "We utilized our techniques for the first time eight years ago when there was an oil spill on the beach between Haifa and Acre. And now, it's used all over the world," said Rosenberg.
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