{"id":10630,"date":"2014-03-20T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:31:14","slug":"pioneer-of-renewable-fuels-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/in-memoriam\/pioneer-of-renewable-fuels-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer of renewable fuels remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alex Green passed away on March 12, 2014 at the age of 94. He was a decorated Air Force veteran who served in World War II, and a warmly regarded faculty member in the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Green came to the University of Florida as a graduate research professor in 1963. He worked in the departments of Mechanical &amp; Aerospace Engineering and Nuclear &amp; Radiological Engineering for forty years, and then for another eleven as a professor emeritus.<\/p>\n<p>In retirement as with his years on campus, Dr. Green was an industrious innovator. At 93 he stood at the Cade Museum Prize award ceremony \u2013 a member of the Final Four \u2013 and won the People\u2019s Choice Award for his pyrolizer machine that could create renewable energy and \u201cbio-char\u201d soil amendments at off-the-grid locations. Dr. Green\u2019s interest in renewable fuels arose from his flights in WWII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alex Green passed away on March 12, 2014 at the age of 94. He was a decorated Air Force veteran who served in World War II, and a warmly regarded faculty member in the College of Engineering. Dr. Green came to the University of Florida as a graduate research professor in 1963. He worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38003,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/38003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}