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According to Wikipedia, Abel Wolman was an American engineer, educator and pioneer of modern sanitary engineering. His professional career left impacts in academia, sanitary engineering research, environmental and public health services, engineering professional societies, and journal publications. Wolman is best known for his research with Linn Enslow in the chlorination of Baltimore's municipal water supply, which has contributed to the distribution of safe municipal water supplies globally.

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THE METABOLISM OF CITIES. (1965) (1102)
The environment and disease. (1976) (238)
Public health and the environment. (1985) (170)
Population, Resources, Environment. Issues in Human Ecology (1971) (66)
[The irrational man]. (1967) (43)
American Journal of Public Health-Vol. 31, No. 1-January, 1941. (1941) (39)
Water resources : a report to the Committee on Natural Resources of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (1962) (36)
Water‐borne Outbreaks in the United States and Canada, and Their Significance (1939) (34)
JOINT STATEMENT OF AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ON PROCEDURE FOR ISSUING "STANDARD METHODS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WATER AND SEWAGE" (31)
The Limits of the Earth (1954) (28)
Housing for Health (1942) (26)
The Significance of Waterborne Typhoid Fever Outbreaks, 1920–1930 (1931) (24)
Enviromental sanitation in urban and rural areas: its importance in the control of enteric infections. (1975) (18)
Measurement of the Health Benefits of Investments in Water Supply (1976) (14)
WATER COMPOSITION AND CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH. (1964) (14)
An Appraisal Method for Measuring the Quality of Housing: A Yardstick for Health Officers, Housing Officials and Planners (1945) (12)
The recreational use of domestic water supply reservoirs : perception and choice (1970) (11)
Public health aspects of land utilization of wastewater effluents and sludges. (1977) (11)
Water-Borne Typhoid Fever Still a Menace. (1931) (10)
The Future of Arid Lands (1957) (10)
Chlorine Absorption and the Chlorination of Water. (1919) (10)
Water and society. (1961) (7)
Formulation of National Water Resources Policy in Israel (1962) (7)
TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICAN WATER DEVELOPMENT (1959) (6)
DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES IN RELATION TO PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY: A SYMPOSIUM. (1926) (6)
Recent studies on disinfection of air in military establishments. (1947) (6)
A Modification of the McCrady Method of the Numerical Interpretation of Fermentation-Tube Results (1917) (6)
US Water Supply Lessons Applicable to Developing Countries (1963) (5)
Elements of water supply engineering (1938) (5)
75 Years of Improvement in Water Supply Quality (1956) (5)
Air pollution: time for appraisal. (1968) (5)
Concepts of Policy in the Formulation of So‐Called Standards of Health and Safety (1960) (5)
VALUES IN THE CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENT. (1925) (4)
THE ENVIRONMENT: PAST, PRESENT, AND PLUPERFECT (1971) (4)
Water, Health and Society: Selected Papers by Abel Wolman (1971) (4)
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND METROPOLITAN AREAS (1961) (4)
Arctic environmental health problems (1972) (4)
Environmental issues in the Arctic. (1968) (4)
Nuclear fission operations and the sanitary engineer. (1949) (4)
Daniel Coit Gilman: Creator of the American Type of University (1947) (4)
Should public water supplies be used for mass medication? (1947) (4)
Pollution as an International Issue (1968) (4)
IMPOUNDED WATERS AND MALARIA (4)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (3)
Manganese in the Loch Raven Reservoir (1940) (3)
A Century in Arrears : Presidential Address. (1938) (3)
Impact of Desalinization on the Water Economy (1961) (3)
Drainage basin problems and programs (1938) (3)
WORK of the World Health Organization; Expert Committees. (1952) (3)
Recent Progress in the Art of Water Treatment (1930) (3)
Characteristics and Problems of Industrial Water Supply (1952) (3)
Give health a chance--with healthy surroundings. (1986) (3)
New perspectives in public health. (1977) (2)
Technological decision making (1970) (2)
Sanitary Inspection-A Review. (1921) (2)
State Responsibility in Stream Pollution Abatement (1947) (2)
The Principles and Practice of the Dilution Method of Sewage Disposal (1929) (2)
Sanitation of Yesterday-But What of Tomorrow? (1949) (2)
Disposal of Radioactive Wastes (1957) (2)
APHA in its first century. (1973) (2)
WASTE MATERIALS IN THE UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRAM (1950) (2)
The Opportunity for the Engineer in the Field of Housing. (1943) (2)
[Health and the environment]. (1980) (2)
Radiation and the Health Officer (1959) (2)
Water, health, and society (1969) (2)
Some public health problems in nuclear fission operations. (1949) (2)
The Practicability of Adopting Standards of Quality for Water Supplies (1918) (2)
Unfinished business and new forces in environmental health orthodoxy. (1953) (2)
What Are the Responsibilities of Public Water Supply Officials in the Correction of Dental Deficiencies (1943) (2)
A Preliminary Analysis of the Degree and Nature of Bacterial Removal in Filtration Plants (1918) (2)
Status of Water Resources Use, Control, and Planning in the United States (1963) (2)
Is there a public health function? (1986) (2)
The Nation Looks at Its Resources—Report of the Mid-Century Conference on Resources for the Future (1955) (2)
Providing Reasonable Water Service (1955) (2)
[Importance of environmental sanitation in urban and rural areas for the control of intestinal infections]. (1975) (2)
Revising the U. S. Standards for Drinking Water Quality [with Discussion] (1941) (1)
The National Health Program-Present Status. (1940) (1)
[The environment and diseases]. (1976) (1)
Extension of Public Services to Suburban Areas (1955) (1)
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITIES1 (1984) (1)
The Sanitary Engineer Looks Forward. (1946) (1)
1986 Robert E. Horton Medal to Abel Wolman (1986) (1)
Water Composition and Cardiovascular Health: Report of the Educational and Scientific Foundation of the Illinois State Medical Society (PDF) (1964) (1)
MULTIPLE PURPOSE RIVER DEVELOPMENT (1970) (1)
The toxicology jungle. (1987) (1)
A generation of progress in sanitary engineering facilities and services for Latin American and Caribbean countries. (1972) (1)
The Miami Conservancy District as a Social Instrument (1974) (1)
Index Numbers and Scoring of Water Supplies (1919) (1)
Construction and Equipment of the Home. Vol. 3, Standards for Healthful Housing (1951) (1)
WILL INVESTOR‐OWNED WATER UTILITIES GROW OR DIE? (1969) (1)
DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES IN THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRAM (1956) (1)
Notes on the Role of Iron in the Activated-Sludge Process. (1)
Recent Trends in Public Health Engineering Practice. (1937) (1)
Education and Training of Personnel Other than Physicians. (1940) (1)
ViewPoint – Can the Water Supply Industry Fend for Itself in the Future? (1983) (1)
Census of municipal water purification plants in the United States, 1930-1931 (1933) (1)
Long‐Range Planning for Water Service (1956) (1)
THE IMPACT OF POPULATION CHANGES ON THE ENVIRONMENT. (1965) (1)
What Became of Sanitary Engineering (1977) (1)
The trend of civil engineering since Franklin (1938) (1)
Public Health Problems in Impounding Water in the Tennessee Valley (1945) (1)
Is there an optimum level of population (1971) (1)
Financing sanitary works in the tropics; a challenge. (1953) (1)
Assessing the effects of water contamination (1984) (1)
The National Health Program: How Far? How Fast? (1939) (1)
THE TRAINING FOR THE SANITARIAN OF ENVIRONMENT. (1924) (1)
Industrial Poisons in the United States (1926) (1)
Index Numbers and Scoring of Water Supplies—Part II (1920) (1)
A Fresh Approach to Water Law (1958) (1)
The Small Plant Operator as Scientist (1921) (1)
Someone put a number on it (1970) (1)
For Whom the Bell Tolls. (1941) (0)
Stream Pollution in the Ohio River Basin: What Can Be Done About Stream Pollution? (1938) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
The geometric quantization of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with even spin structure. (1993) (0)
Bacteriological Quality of Water from Small Filtration Plants Treating Surface Waters (1941) (0)
Philosophy for Water Utility Managers (1959) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
[Health and international development]. (1962) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
International Conference on Water and Human Health (1986) (0)
Editorial Comment: Fire Hazards and the Water Supply (1928) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Report of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association to the Governing Council, 1946-1947. (1948) (0)
Progress in Federal Conservation of Water Resources 1936–1937 (1937) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Notes and Comment -- Remarks to Formosan Engineers on World Water Supply (PDF) (1962) (0)
Stream Pollution in the Ohio River Basin: A Symposium: What Can Be Done About Stream Pollution? (1939) (0)
Viewpoint -- The Next Five Years (PDF) (1985) (0)
Favorable and Adverse Developments in the School Environment. (1944) (0)
Closure of "National Aspects of Flood Control: A Symposium: Problems in Developing a National Flood Protection Policy" (1938) (0)
[A generation of progress in sanitary engineering services in the Latin America countries and the Caribbean]. (1971) (0)
SOME RECENT FEDERAL ACTIVITIES IN THE CONSERVATION OF WATER RESOURCES [with DISCUSSION] (1936) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Total Approach for Environmental Protection (1976) (0)
The Modern Dowser: (1937) (0)
HOW ARE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES RELATED TO THE INCIDENCE OF GASTRO-ENTERITIS? [with DISCUSSION] (1937) (0)
Viewpoint – Reaching the Goals of the International Drinking Water Decade (1985) (0)
National Aspects of Flood Control: Problems in Developing a National Flood Protection Policy (1937) (0)
THE ENGINEER IN PUBLIC HEALTH (1949) (0)
Possible strategies for the International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade (1979) (0)
Controlling Corrosion of Distribution Systems (1933) (0)
Contributions of Engineering to Health Advancement (1953) (0)
The Complexities of a National Water Policy (1952) (0)
Public Sewerage Systems in Germany (1934) (0)
Ionizing radiation materials as air pollutants. (1950) (0)
WHAT PRICE-WATER POLLUTION CONTROL (1973) (0)
Coöperative Research in Problems of Water Purification (1920) (0)
Review: Population, Resources, Environment. Issues in Human Ecology by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich (1971) (0)
Is Typhoid Fever a Vanishing Disease?: Editorial Comment (1927) (0)
Abel Wolman's charter. (1979) (0)
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON OFFICIAL STANDARDS OF WATER ANALYSIS (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
Man in a complex environment. (1959) (0)
Letters to the Editor - Water Hardness and Cardiovascular Disease (PDF) (1981) (0)
University Degrees in Public Health : Report of the Committee on Training and Personnel. (1928) (0)
Viewpoint – The Small Plant Operator's Role as Scientist (1986) (0)
Training and Personnel : Report of the Committee. (0)
Responsibility for Industrial and Municipal Wastes (1946) (0)
Viewpoint - Urban Water Supply: Water Resources' Cinderella (1981) (0)
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL WATER POLICY (1936) (0)
200 years of Water Service (PDF) (1976) (0)
The Kelly Committee Report… a summary (1953) (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association to the Governing Council 1945-1946. (1946) (0)
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LICENSING OF WATER WORKS EMPLOYEES [with DISCUSSION] (0)
Regional Water Supplies (1941) (0)
200 Years of Water Service (1976) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
Ecologic dilemmas. (1976) (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association to the Governing Council-1945. (1946) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMICS FROM WATER SUPPLY IN GERMANY [with DISCUSSION] (1933) (0)
A PLAN FOR WATER WORKS BETTERMENT WORK AS A PART OF A NATIONAL WORK RELIEF CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM (0)
Editorial Comment: The Cost of Water Borne Typhoid (1929) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
[Radiation and the public health official]. (1959) (0)
THE EFFECT OF SALINITY ON THE VALUE OF WATER FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES [with DISCUSSION] (1933) (0)
The Statistical Method in Problems of Water Supply Quality (1920) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association to the Governing Council 1947-1948. (1949) (0)
Symposium summary. (1979) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Community Water Systems and Their Effect on Health (1963) (0)
Bird's Eye View of the Baltimore Water Supply and Distribution System, 1953 (1953) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
When Doctors Are Rationed (1943) (0)
Public health aspects of atomic energy. (1950) (0)
STANDARDS OF MECHANICAL FILTRATION PLANT PERFORMANCE. (1916) (0)
Flood Protection in the Kansas River Basin (1953) (0)
[Past, present and pluperfect of the environment]. (1973) (0)
An Interview with Abel Wolman (PDF) (1972) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Training and Personnel. (1929) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
Two Letters on "Seasonal Distribution of Soil and Fecal Strains of the Colon-Aerogenes Group in Surface Waters" (1917) (0)
Health priorities in human ecology and environmental pollution. (1974) (0)
Planning the Postwar Water Supply Program (1943) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Water hardness and cardiovascular disease (1981) (0)
Importance of environmental sanitation in the urban and rural environment in the control of enteric infections (1974) (0)
Report of the Committee on Water Works Practice (1953) (0)
Physical aspects of environment. (1961) (0)
An Inquiry into the Effect of Meteorological Conditions Upon the Efficiency of Storage, Filtration, and Chlorination, Based Upon a Study of the Hagerstown Water Supply (1920) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
Editorial Comment: Force Account on Construction Contracts (1928) (0)
The Public Health Engineer and the City Health Officer. (1941) (0)
The Hughes Report on the Great Lakes Levels Controversy (0)
ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WATER WORKS PRACTICE, FOR THE YEAR 1930 (0)
The Impact of Postwar Planning on Public Works Programs (1943) (0)
A MODEL BOND LAW (1927) (0)
Viewpoint – The Next Five Years (1985) (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Executive Board to the Governing Council. (1940) (0)
And the Mountains Will Move. By Captain Miles P. Du Val Jr. Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1947. Pp. 374. $5.00 (1948) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Recent Studies on Disinfection of Air in Military Establishments. (1947) (0)
Wolman Queried on Trace Organics Stance (1984) (0)
Buildings do not think but men do. (1954) (0)
The changing physical and biological environment of man. (1961) (0)
The Water Resources Commission of Maryland (1932) (0)
The Sanitary Engineer Looks Forward (1946) (0)
Water Policy as the Engineers See It (1951) (0)
Planning and technology in sanitary and environmental engineering. (1986) (0)
An Eye to the Future (1968) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Letters -- Wolman Queried on Trace Organics Stance (PDF) (1984) (0)
Some Special Problems in Atmospheric Pollution. (1930) (0)
Effects of Population Changes on Environmental‐Health Problems and Programs (1965) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Viewpoint – A Venture Into the Past and Future (1984) (0)
An Interview With Abel Wolman (1972) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Environmental Sanitation.John A. Salvato, Jr. (1959) (0)
Human waste disposal from railroad passenger cars. (1948) (0)
Natural resources : a summary report (1962) (0)
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONVENTION HOTEL SANITATION (1936) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
THE LAST 15 YEARS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. (1964) (0)
The Compact of 1785 (1947) (0)
The Public Health Engineer's Work. (1933) (0)
What Is Good Water Service and How Should It Be Paid For? - Panel Discussion (PDF) (1963) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WATER WORKS PRACTICE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 1, 1935 (1941) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING PROGRESS IN MARYLAND 1923-24. (1924) (0)
SANITARY ENGINEERING. (0)
Changing Public Health Practices and Problems. (1937) (0)
Viewpoint. No quick and easy solutions (1971) (0)
Potable water supply and excreta disposal services during the decade of the 80's (1979) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)
The Quality of Water and Confirmatory Tests for B. Coli (1917) (0)
FAVORABLE AND ADVERSE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT (1945) (0)
World and Water Imperatives (PDF) (1970) (0)
World health: the optimists v the pessimists. (1953) (0)
A Platform for the A.W.W.A. in the Coming Year (1942) (0)
Editorial Comment: The Modern Dowser (1931) (0)
Public Works and Water Supply Construction (1934) (0)
Report of the Chairman of the Executive Board to the Governing Council 1461. (1940) (0)
Water Supply—An Unresolved Problem in Cooperation (1974) (0)
Landmarks of 1944: Association Progress in 1944. (1945) (0)
Notes and Comments (PDF) (1976) (0)
Sanitary Engineering. (0)

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