Prof.
Fathi Habashi, Emeritus Professor at Laval
University , Canada
His
energy is boundless, and he still travels the world presenting courses and
keynote lectures, and is a prolific writer of books. I see him every year at
the SME Annual Meeting, where he not only attends but makes presentations,
often describing his travels. At next year’s meeting in Salt Lake
City he will be reporting on his travels in Turkey Vina del Mar , Chile, where he was guest speaker at a
conference organised by extractive metallurgy students at the Catholic University
in Valparaiso Ica , Peru
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| In Vina del Mar, Chile |
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| In Ica, Peru |
He will be in Peru
again in November to give a short course on pressure hydrometallurgy in Lima , and then in December he will be discussing the heap
leaching of phosphate rock with nitric acid at Agadir in Morocco
Even
for a youngster such as me his schedule would be exhausting, so raise your
glasses to him today. Fathi you are an inspiration!
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I first contacted him in 2009 when i was doing my bachelor to ask some points on hydrometallurgy subjects. Since that time, he is always kind and friendly to me as he does to all. I kept contact with him. In 2011, I organized a conference on gold hydrometallurgy in Turkey -www.min-eng.com/hydrometallurgy/reps/27.html and invited him as a guest of honor to this organization. It was a good chance to meet him face to face. Then, he kindly helped me to find a PhD position at the same university in Canada. Briefly, it is my privilege to know him. Many thanks to Fathi Habashi whom given a gifted golden life energy and to his nice wife Nadia Edward Boulos for all.
ReplyDeleteHappy 85th birthday Fathi Habashi!
Congratulations Prof. on your Birthday! Thanks very much the MEI team for honouring such a remarkable stalwart in the Minerals industry. Prof. Fathi Habashi is really a beacon of inspiration par excellence.
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