Schroeder, H. E.

H. E. Schroeder was a research chemist who spent most of his career with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.

Herman Elbert Schroeder was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 6, 1915. He attended Brooklyn's well-known Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School and completed all of his college studies at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1939. He joined DuPont in 1938 and rose to become Director of Research and Development (1963-1980), specializing in the fields of synthetic rubber and plastics. During this period, he received 37 patents and published 40 papers.

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