Abul hussam biography of george mason university

American chemist

Abul Hussam (Bengali: আবুল হুসসাম) is the inventor of the Sono arsenic filter. He is a chemistry professor at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

Life and career

Hussam was born in Kushtia, and raised in Bangladesh. Hussam moved to the United States in for graduate studies.

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Later he received a doctorate in analytical chemistry and became a naturalized citizen of the US. The Centreville, Virginia, resident has spent much of this career trying to devise a solution to the problem of arsenic contamination of groundwater in eastern India and Bangladesh.

Hussam started working on this problem in ^[1] His final innovation is a simple, maintenance-free system that uses sand, charcoal, bits of brick and shards of a type of cast iron.

The filter removes almost every trace of arsenic from the well water. The wells brought fresh groundwater to farm