Editing Norbert Berkowitz (section)

{{Short description|Canadian scientist}}
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|birth_date  = 1924
|birth_place = Berlin, Germany
|death_date  = June 25, 2001
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|awards      = [[Order of Canada]]
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'''Norbert Berkowitz''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (1924 &ndash; June 25, 2001) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] scientist involved in researching coal technology in conjunction with the [[Alberta Research Council]] and the [[University of Alberta]].

Berkowitz was born in [[Berlin]] and lived in [[Germany]] for the first 15 years of his life. During [[World War II]], he and his family fled to [[England]], where received a Ph.D. in [[petroleum engineering]] from the [[University of London]]. In 1952, he moved to [[Edmonton, Alberta|Edmonton]] and joined the Alberta Research Council. He joined the [[University of Alberta]] in 1979 in a teaching position and retired in 1988. In 1984 he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref>{{OCC|130}}</ref> He was killed in a [[car accident]] in 2001.