DIOSADY, Levente, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
Levente Diosady is a renowned food engineer who has spent much of his career developing techniques for fortifying food with micronutrients with the goal of preventing micronutrient deficiency. His technology for double fortification of salt with iron and iodine, developed to help combat iodine and iron deficiency, has already cured over one million children of anemia in India and is now being phased into all the nation's school lunch programs.