Perry L. McCarty - Hall of Fame 1988

Perry L. McCarty is the Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he came in 1962 to develop their environmental engineering and science program. He has had a variety of teaching experiences, including positions at Harvard, MIT, Wayne State, a Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in China, and World Class University Professorship at Inha University in South Korea. He has been an invited guest lecturer at more than 80 universities worldwide, and was selected by the National Academies to be their 2001 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecturer.

Perry received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Wayne State University in 1953 and a master's degree and Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957 and 1959. He has Honorary Doctor of Engineering Degrees from the Colorado School of Mines (1992) and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2010), and Honorary Professorships at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and at the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He was Chairman of Stanford's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1980-1985, and Director of Stanford's Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center from 1989-2002.

Perry is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Honorary Member in the American Academy of Environmental Engineering, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation. He has received numerous awards, including the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1992, the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Water Science and Technology in 1997, and the Stockholm Water Prize in 2007.

Among other awards are the Harrison P. Eddy Award for Noteworthy Research (1964 and 1977), the Thomas Camp Award for Unique Application of Engineering Research (1975), and the Gordon Maskew Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal (2012) of the Water Environment Federation; the A. P. Black Research Award (1989) and Water Industry Hall of Fame Award (2009) of the American Water Works Association; the Walter L. Huber Research Prize (1964), the Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Lecture Award (1979), and J. James R. Croes Medal (1995) of the American Society of Civil Engineers; and the Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal for engineering achievement in environmental conservation by the National Audubon Society (2013). He has over 350 publications, and is coauthor of the textbooks, Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science, and Environmental Biotechnology - Principles and Applications. He has served the profession broadly, including with numerous committees, boards, and commissions for the National Academies.