The Marcel Loncin Research Prize was established in 1994. It is awarded by the Institute of Food Technologists

Institute of Food Technologists

The Institute of Food Technologists or IFT is an international, non-profit professional organization for the advancement of food science and technology. It is the largest of food science organizations in the world, encompassing 22,000 members worldwide as of 2006. It is referred to as "THE Society...

 (IFT) in even-numbered years to fund basic chemistry

Chemistry

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, physics

Physics

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, and/or engineering

Engineering

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 research applied to food processing

Food processing

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 and improving food quality

Food quality

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. It is named for Marcel Loncin

Marcel Loncin

Marcel Loncin was a Belgian-born, French chemical engineer who was involved in food engineering throughout his career.-Education:...

 (1920-1994), a Belgian

Belgium

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-born, French

France

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 chemical engineer

Chemical engineering

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 who did food engineering

Food engineering

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 research while a professor at the Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches des Industries Alimentaries (CERIA) and afterwards at the Food Engineering Department of the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. It was the third and final IFT award as of 2006 that has been named for a then-living person.

Award winners receive USD 50,000 in two annual installments and a plaque from the Marcin Loncin Endowment Fund of the IFT.

Winners

Year	Winner
1994	Werner Bauer
1996	John M.V. Blanshard
1998	Theodore P. Labuza
2000	Syed S.H. Rizvi
2002	Jozef L. Kokini
2004	Dietrich Knorr
2006	Jose Miguel Aguilera
2008	Shelly J. Schmidt
2010	D. Julian McClements

External links

• List of past winners - Official site