Comments and Messages about Professor Ole Fanger
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Ole Fanger was a great friend of the Syracuse University community and he will be missed. Ole was a world-renowned engineer, scholar, educator, and pioneer and we were fortunate to count him as a colleague. His engagement with our students, faculty and academic partners as University Professor substantially advanced our standing as a world-class research institution, and greatly benefited our Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. Our thoughts are with Ole's family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time.
Submitted by: Nancy Cantor, Chancellor & President, Syracuse University
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Ole Fanger was our teacher, our partner, our inspiration, and, most of all, our beloved friend. Over the last four years, Syracuse University students, faculty, and staff had the privilege and pleasure of engaging with Ole and his collaborators at DTU and elsewhere around the world in a wide and steadily increasing range of interactions.
Ole and his extended family of collaborators have had a profound impact on our activities in Syracuse and across the entire State of New York. Following the model pioneered by Ole and his collaborators, we've established major centers that engage scholars from multiple disciplines and multiple institutions to focus on research and development to improve built and urban environments. We've sought to connect to the global community created by Ole and his collaborators over the last 30+ years. Ole graciously welcomed us into that community. As a parent nutures a child, he helped and encouraged us in countless ways, large and small.
We cherish the memories that we have of Ole giving lectures in Syracuse, contributing to our plans for our new headquarters facility, interacting one-on-one with our students, and dancing with our Chancellor on the floor of the Carrier Dome at Syracuse University's dinner on the eve of our Commencement in 2005, at which he received an honorary degree. He left us all too soon. But in impact and inspiration, Ole's influence will be alive in Syracuse for generations to come.
Submitted by: Ed Bogucz, Executive Director, Syracuse Center of Excellence
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The indoor air community will greatly miss Ole Fanger's humor and great insight into indoor environmental research. He knew how to shake up the research community and to make it think in new and different ways to solve indoor environmental research problems.
Submitted by: Charlene Bayer, Principal Research Scientist & Branch Head, Georgia Tech Research Institute
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It is too early that he died. I had the pleasure to meet him for the first time in the very early nineties when he encouraged me to make a joint research project on perception of olfactory stimuli. He was fascinated by my approach of positive thinking towards the perception air quality. It was just about the time when he had developed the olf/decipol scale, the measurement for negative emissions. A few weeks ago he rang me and told me after a long interesting discussion that he thinks that the time is slowly right now for a paradigm shift within the HVAC community. He was very interested - as always - about consolidated findings in the field of chemical senses with respect to positive stimulation in the indoor air. We will have to proceed with his appeal to our community - as he stated in the last paragraph of his article in the Indoor Air Journal (October 2006) - to start a paradigm shift.
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Ole was a great scientist and a wonderful person and we all will miss him.
Submitted by: Prof. Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University
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It is too early that he died. I had the pleasure to meet him for the first time in the very early nineties when he encouraged me to make a joint research project on perception of olfactory stimuli. He was fascinated by my approach of positive thinking towards the perception air quality. It was just about the time when he had developed the olf/decipol scale, the measurement for negative emissions. A few weeks ago he rang me and told me after a long interesting discussion that he thinks that the time is slowly right now for a paradigm shift within the HVAC community. He was very interested - as always - about consolidated findings in the field of chemical senses with respect to positive stimulation in the indoor air. We will have to proceed with his appeal to our community - as he stated in the last paragraph of his article in the Indoor Air Journal (October 2006) - to start a paradigm shift.
Submitted by: Diotima von Kempski, DVK air vitalizing system, Germany
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Ole's knowledge, teaching skill, social grace, generosity, as well as his taste for good food and wine were appreciated throughout the ASHRAE and ISIAQ communities. I will miss him in so many ways. His soft and authoritative voice was instrumental in updating ASHRAE's standard 62 in the areas of secondhand smoke and building material contaminants. May he be tied up in the bonds of life and his memory be a blessing and inspiriation for us all.
Submitted by: Larry Schoen, President, Schoen Engineering Inc
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