Egon Spengler does not have much social ability, as demonstrated by his stiff interactions with the Ghostbusters' secretary Janine Melnitz, and his reliance on Peter Venkman as spokesperson for the group. Spengler is the most serious and rigid member of the team. Of his hobbies, Spengler states that he collects "spores, molds, and fungus", and claims that, as a child, the only toy he ever had was "part of a Slinky", which he straightened out. As implied in the first movie, Spengler apparently is a sugar junkie, due to his affection for sweets and candy. According to the 2009 video game, Spengler
John Spengler and strategies, and was a member of Harvard's Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure, and air pollution epidemiology. In 2003, Dr. Spengler received the 9th Annual Heinz Award in the Environment. Ph.D., 1971, State University of New York, Albany John Spengler John Daniel Spengler is an American health scholar currently the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Faculty member in the Department of Environmental Science and Public Policy of the Faculty of Arts