The Soil Matters: With Dr. Gerald Pollack
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Gerald Pollack received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and
is now a professor of Bioengineering. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief
of the journal WATER, convener of the Annual Conference on the Physics,
Chemistry, and Biology of Water, and Executive Director of the Institute for
His interests have ranged broadly from biological motion and cell biology to the
interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His 1990 book,
Muscles, and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion, won an
“Excellence Award” from the Society for Technical Communication. His 2001 book,
Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life, and his newest book, The Fourth Phase of
Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor, won that Society’s “Distinguished
Award,” their highest distinction. The latter book went on to receive the World
Pollack received an honorary doctorate in 2002 from Ural State University in
Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named an Honorary Professor of the
Russian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member and Academician of the Srpska
Academy. He received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished
Lecturer Award in 2002. In 2008, his colleagues chose him as the recipient of
his university’s highest annual distinction: the UW Faculty Lecturer Award.
Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical
Engineering Society. He received an NIH Director’s Transformative R01 Award. He
was the 2012 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics of dissipative
systems, and in 2014 he received the Scientific Excellence Award from the World
Academy of Neural Therapy, as well as the Dinsdale Prize from the Society for
Scientific Exploration. He has presented two TEDx talks on water.
In 2015, he won the BrandLaureate Award, previously bestowed on notables such as Nelson
Mandela, Hillary Clinton, and Steve Jobs. In 2016 he was awarded the Emoto
Inaugural Peace Prize and, more recently, the Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. He appears briefly in the 2016 Travis
Rice sports-action film, The Fourth Phase, named after his recent book. And he
is included in the 2019 listing OOOM Magazine as one of the “World’s 100 Most
Inspiring People.” In 2020, he presented his work at the “Majlis” by invitation
from the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi at his Royal Palace, and more recently, in
2023, at the United Nations.
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