Wallace W. Rhodes
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Wallace W. Rhodes, is an American environmental engineer and mycological researcher. He served in the Navy in World War II and saw action in the Pacific Theatre, sailing on board of the USS Palawan. After the war he went to study engineering. In 1952 he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor degree in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. He specialized in technological systems for heating, ventilating and air conditioning. His pioneering research relating microbiology to indoor air quality led to the discovery of the principal causative agent of Legionnaires Disease. Rhodes co-authored numerous refereed articles published in medical, scientific and engineering journals, including the American Journal of Epidemiology,[1] and InformeDesign.[2] He investigated over 60 outbreaks of contagious diseases in offices and hospitals and found solutions for the Sick Building Syndrome. Rhodes also developed facilities for isolation of smallpox and other highly contagious airborne diseases. He also worked as a consultant with NASA for designing space suits for microbial containment. He received the F.A.A. and GSA Awards in recognition of his engineering accomplishments. A member of American Mensa and the Poetic Genius Society,[3] in 1979 he graduated from Columbia Pacific University with a PhD in Engineering and Mycology.
