DuPont, Robert

Dupont, Robert, and Betty Ford. The Selfish Brain Learning from Addiction. 

DuPont, Robert L. The Selfish Brain Learning front Addiction. Center City,... 

A number of American research institutions and the people who shaped them have already featured in this book the creation of the Materials Research Laboratories Robert Mehl s influence on the Naval Research Laboratory and on Carnegie Institute of Technology Hollomon s influence on the GE laboratory Seitz s influence on the University of Illinois (and numerous other places) Carothers and Flory at the Dupont laboratory the triumvirate who invented the transistor and the atmosphere at Bell Laboratories that made this feat possible Stookey, glass-ceramics and the Corning Glass laboratory. I would like now to round off this list with an account of a most impressive laboratory that came to grief, and the man who shaped it. 

We gratefully acknowledge the comments and suggestions submitted by the following companies and peer reviewers Henry Blunt (Shell Oil) Arthur F. Burk (DuPont) Charles Dancer (Allied Signal) J. A. Hoffmeister (Martin Marietta Energy Systems) Robert Ormsby (Air Products and Chemicals) Duane Sanderson (3M) Anthony A. Thompson (Monsanto) and Guy Van Cleve (Petrocon). 

ROBERT W. PEIFFER Experimental Station Laboratory Dupont, Inc. 

The Paris school included Robert Lespieau (18641947), Georges Dupont (18841958), Charles Prevost (18991983), and Albert Kirrmann (19001974). Principal figures in the London-Manchester school were Arthur Lapworth (18721941), Thomas Martin Lowry (18741936), Robert Robinson (18861975), Jocelyn Thorpe (18721940), and Christopher Ingold (18931970). A broadly defined German research school pursuing ionic and electronic theories of reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry does not enter into this history, because it did not exist. 

Robert Lespieau s aim to establish a disciplinary specialization of "chemical theories" in France was partially realized in the work of some of his students, especially Dupont, Prevost, and Kirrmann. For the first time, a clearly defined research school in France practiced the art of "theoretical chemistry" in their study of organic structure and reaction mechanisms. They self-consciously employed physical methods and apparatus, and they stayed in contact with a small network of physicists who were teachers, friends of Lespieau, or immediate colleagues. They had a laboratory terrain that was the home meeting place, no matter what their current affiliation. They had a common history that could be traced back generation by generation in the Ecole Normale laboratory to Berthollet, the "father" of chemical mechanics. 

T. Gloster, S. J. Williams, C. A. Tarling, S. Roberts, C. Dupont, P. Jodoin, F. Shareck, S. G. Withers, and G. J. Davies, A xylobiose-derived isofagomine lactam glycosidase inhibitor binds as its amide tautomer, Chem. Commun. (2003) 944-945. 

Robert J. Naumann, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Huntsville, AL http //www.atmos.uah.edu/. Space Processing Behruoz Nazer, . /, Du Pont tie Nemours A Co., Inc., Wilmington, DE, hiip7Avww.dupont.com/ag/. Information Retrieval William T. Nearn. Weyehaeuser Company. Seattle. WA. Wood Preservative... 

Willard C. Gekler, independent consultant J. Robert Gibson, DuPont Company... 

Acknowlegments The bulk of the DuPont work described herein was conducted by research workers in the Automotive Finishes and Central Research Departments. I wish to especially thank Dotsi Sogah, Wally Hertler, Bill Farnham, T.V. RajanBabu, and Professors Jack Roberts and Barry Trost for many hours of discussion on various aspects of GTP technology-... 

J. ROBERT GIBSON, DuPont Life Sciences, Wilmington, Delaware (until 12/31/00)... 

Later that year, the outgoing Ford Administration eased the previous federal stand against decriminalization, encouraging discussion of this issue for the first time in a policy statement from the Strategy Council on Drug Abuse. Ford s chief advisor on drugs, Robert DuPont, stated that marijuana was less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and urged decriminalization of limited home production. 

By the time the article appeared in print, Hueper s employment at DuPont had ended on bad terms. On a plant visit early in his dye research, he learned that the area of his visit had been specially cleaned for the inspection and insisted on seeing the much dirtier remainder of the operation. His immediate written complaint went to Irenee du Pont, and Hueper was never allowed to visit the dye works again. Later, when the results of the experiments became clear, DuPont issued a press release announcing the discovery and ascribing it to the laboratory directors Hueper visited the local newspaper to assert his own claim to credit and kept the release out of the paper. Soon afterward he was dismissed.6 DuPont quietly financed continued research on dye chemicals by Robert Kehoe, not publishing the findings even when they pointed to cancer hazards from additional chemicals.7... 

In the new climate, Hueper s work quickly encountered opposition. Within the Public Health Service, he came under fire from the Industrial Hygiene Division. When his scientific survey sold out a printing of 10,000 copies, permission to reprint was denied after he refused to make changes that organization demanded. He clashed as well with corporate medical directors such as George Gehrmann of DuPont and Robert Eckardt of Esso. Accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, he won clearance from a Loyalty Board he was next said to exhibit communistic tendencies.19... 

We would like to thank DuPont Polymer Products Department for supporting this work and allowing its publication. We thank Gerald Horack and Robert Tomczak for performing the OFV tests and Michael Panco for obtaining the dielectric relaxation data. D. A. Vassallo is acknowledged for many helpful discussions in the early days of this program. 

Examples which come to mind are those of Philip E. Eaton, who owed his interest in cage molecules to industrial work on chlorinated pesticides, which led him to the epochal synthesis of cubane in 1964 (Traynham 1997) of Fred McLafiferty and George Olah, who both worked for a time in a laboratory of Dow Chemical of Richard E. Smalley, an industrial chemist before he enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton (Smalley 1996) of Earl Muetterties, who left the Experimental Station at DuPont in Wilmington for a professorship at the University of California of Howard E. Simmons who, when heading central research also at DuPont, turned down the offer of a professorship at Harvard (Bohning 1993, Roberts Collette 1999) and so on. 

Roberts was made a convert in part by a scientist at DuPont (Ferguson 1996). 

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