George Tchobanoglous

George Tchobanoglous (born 1935) is an American civil and environmental engineer, writer and professor, born in the United States to Greek immigrant parents. He took a bachelor degree in civil engineering at the University of the Pacific, a master degree in sanitary engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in environmental engineering at Stanford University under Rolf Eliassen. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis in 1970, taught water and wastewater treatment and solid waste management there for the rest of his career, and is now professor emeritus. His research covers wastewater treatment, water reuse and solid waste management: constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in the 1970s, filtration technologies approved by California, and ultraviolet disinfection, for which guidelines he helped draft in 1993 became the standard United States resource.