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Sidney Loeb, chemical engineer, made reverse osmosis (ro) practical by developing, together with Srinivasa Sourirajan, semi-permeable anisotropic membranes. Loeb invented the power generating process pressure retarded osmosis (pro).
Loeb earned his M.Sc. (1959) and Ph.D. (1964) degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles. It was in the course of his M.Sc. thesis research that the Loeb-Sourirajan membrane breakthrough was achieved. From 1966 up until his retirement in 1986 Loeb was associated with the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Pro was invented at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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