Alim Ahmed Fatah

Alim Ahmed Fatah is a Somali scientist and inventor born in Las Khorey, Somalia.
Life
Alim Ahmed Fatah is an inventor from Somalia. He studied overseas and received his High School Diploma and General Certificate of Education (GCE), with honors from the University of London. Alim then returned to Somalia and enrolled in the then new National College of Education “Lafoole” at Afgoye but left after 8 months when he secured a scholarship in Kuwait with five other Somali students and joined Kuwait University.
Inventions and Innovations
*The popular Self-adhesive stamp - An environmentally friendly, and recyclable postage stamp with non-toxic security inks.
*Modern Postage stamp cancelletion ink - currently used in all US postal service facilities.
* At BASF Corporation, as a Research Staff Scientist Alim developed new ester demulsifiers for breaking water-in-oil emulsions and synthesized a new line of reactive Uvinul compounds to protect polymer films, coatings and structural materials from harmful UV radiation and degradation. He also co-invented with another chemist a proprietary process for removing N-nitrosoamines impurities, synthesized new types of nonionic surfactants for applications such as dishwasher detergents, fiber lubricants, hydraulic fluids, agricultural chemicals, and cosmetics.
*At Artech Corporation in 1986 as a Senior Materials Scientist Alim developed a new luminescent (both fluorescent and phosphorescent) taggants, based on terbium and europium metals, for use with environmentally engineered water-based ink jet printer inks used in U.S. Mail bar coding for optical character recognition (OCR) of automated mail processing equipment and other applications
*At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Alim jointly developed a process for treatment of the waste from the printing inks at the BEP’s new Waste Water Treatment Plant
Awards
*Best Graduate Student Award” -Binghamton University
*Zappert Award - American Chemical Society and the Research Foundation of the State University of New York (SUNY).
*the US Postal Service Merit Award
*the Team Leadership Award for Environmental Achievement - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
*the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, Leadership and Accomplishments - the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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