ALS : Wilmington, Del., to John R. Johnson, Ithaca, N.Y., 1936 Jan. 6.

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ALS : Wilmington, Del., to John R. Johnson, Ithaca, N.Y., 1936 Jan. 6.

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In a bread-and-butter note after a recent visit, Carothers describes his return to work, his depressed mood, and the lack of opportunities for theoretical chemical debates in Wilmington. He also thanks Prof. Johnson for a gift of wines.

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Johnson, John R.

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John Raven Johnson (1900-1988) was a professor of chemistry at Cornell University from 1930 until his retirement in 1965. He also served as a consultant to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1937 until 1951, where he worked for the Organic Chemicals Department. Johnson received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois where he studied with Professor Roger Adams. At Illinois, Johnson became a close friend of Wallace Carothers who in 1928 joined the Chemi...

Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937

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Wallace H. Carothers was born in Burlington Iowa on April 27, 1896. He attended undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Illinois, Urbana where he studied under Roger Adam. In 1928 after several years teaching undergraduates at Harvard he accepted a position in Du Pont's newly formed fundamental research program. By 1930 he and his group, which included Julian W. Hill and the future Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Paul Flory, discovered both Nylon and Neoprene. Carothers was plagued ...