Biochemistry & Micxrobiology, SEBS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. eveleigh@aesop.rutgers.edu.
ABSTRACT: Mary E H Mandels, who spearheaded the US Army's national bioconversion studies for four decades and was an early proponent of conversion of waste biomass to readily bioconvertible sugars for the production of chemicals and transportation fuels such as ethanol, died 17 February 2008 at Natick, MA, USA. She was 90.