E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Central Research and Development Dept.

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The Du Pont Company's Central Research and Development Dept. was created in 1975 from elements of the Development Dept. and the Central Research Dept. The Development Dept. was formed in 1903 and has operated as the company's research arm at the Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. The Central Research Dept. was formed in 1911 as the Chemical Dept. and renamed in 1958.

Centralized research at the Du Pont Company resulted from the company's need to diversify its product base after its 1902 reorganization. In 1911 the Chemical Dept. was organized, and all company research came under its jurisdiction. By 1922 research became decentralized with each manufacturing department having its own research division, but all research remained based at the Experimental Station. The Chemical Dept.'s second director, Charles M. A. Stine, initiated a formal program of fundamental research in physical and organic chemistry, physics, and chemical engineering in 1928. Wallace Hume Carothers came to work for Du Pont under this new program that same year. Less than a decade later Carothers and his team laid the groundwork for the commercial development of neoprene and developed nylon.

From the description of Records, 1902-1985. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122516262

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Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
associatedWith Adams, Roger, 1889-1971. person
associatedWith American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. corporateBody
associatedWith Arthur D. Little, Inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Bailey, Emerson Dudley, 1902- . person
associatedWith Bolton, Elmer K. 1886-1968. person
associatedWith Bradshaw, Hamilton, 1881-1945. person
associatedWith Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937. person
associatedWith E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Central Research Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chemical Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Development Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station. corporateBody
associatedWith Flory, Paul J. 1910-1985. person
associatedWith Heckert, Winfield W. 1902-1988. person
associatedWith Hill, Julian W. 1904-1996. person
associatedWith Johnson, John R. 1900-1988. person
associatedWith Kenney, Arthur Webster, 1891- . person
associatedWith Kraemer, E. O. 1898-1943. person
associatedWith Lazier, William, 1900- . person
associatedWith Marvel, Carl Shipp, 1894-1988. person
associatedWith Miles, John B. 1902- person
associatedWith Natta, Guilio, 1903-1979. person
associatedWith Nichols, J. Burton 1902-1995. person
associatedWith Nieuwland, Julius A. 1878-1936. person
associatedWith Reese, Charles L. 1862-1940. person
associatedWith Stine, Charles M. A. 1882-1954. person
associatedWith Tanberg, Arthur P. 1885-1963. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Delaware
Subject
Chemical engineering
Chemical industry
Chemical plants
Chemistry
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Chemists
Engineering laboratories
Gums and resin
Research, Industrial
Neoprene
Nylon
Organic compounds
Rayon
Rubber, Artificial
Technological innovations
Textile chemistry
Textile fibers, Synthetic
Occupation
Activity

Corporate Body

Active 1902

Active 1985

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