Carothers oral history project notes, 1925-1979.

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Carothers oral history project notes, 1925-1979.

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The records include a tape and transcripts of a series of interviews with persons who knew and worked with Wallace Hume Carothers, the discoverer of nylon, conducted in 1978 and 1979. Interviewees include: Crawford Greenewalt, Dr. Gerard Berchet, Mrs. Robert Kyle, Mrs. Edward Duncan, Julian and Polly Hill, John and Lib Miles, and William E. Mapel. There is also a folder of miscellaneous material by and about Carothers.

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Hill, Julian W. (Julian Werner), 1904-1996

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Berchet, Gerard J., 1902-1990

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Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993

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Crawford H. Greenewalt was an executive with the Du Pont Company and president of the firm from 1948 to 1962. He joined the company in 1922 and served as a supervisor on the nylon project in the 1930s and during the war as technical liason on the Manhattan Project. He was an accomplished amateur photographer and ornithologist and author of a study of hummingbirds (1960). After his retirement from Du Pont, Greenewalt served on a number of corporate boards, business, political, scientific, civic a...

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 ...

Miles, John B. (John Blanchard), 1902-

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