Mellon Institute for Industrial Research

These included Johns Hopkins pharmacologist John J. Abel (by letter only, as he could not attend), Rockefeller Institute biochemist P. A. Levene, Chief of the U.S.D.A. Bureau of Chemistry Carl Alsberg, Wisconsin pharmacologist Arthur Loevenhart (engaged at the time in chemical warfare work), Acting Director of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research E. R. Weidlein, and two industry representatives, Frank Eldred of Eli Lilly and Company and D. W. Jayne of the Barrett Company. The addresses were published in the December 1918 issue of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, and were also reprinted and circulated to numerous individuals whose views were solicited (21). 

William P. Dtjnworth, Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania... 

Science (A.A.A.S.), Economic Botany (N. Y. Botanical Garden), Tappi (Technical Assoc, of Pulp Paper Industry), Contributions of Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research American Journal of Botany (Botanical Society of America), Annual Report of Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, The Chemist (American Institute of Chemists), etc. 

In 1943 and 1944, Paul Emmett was associated with the Manhattan Project. When this program ended, he left Johns Hopkins for a new position with the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research on a Multiple Petroleum Fellowship financed by Gulf Oil Company. This began another productive period of important scientific contributions, which continued for the next eleven years. Some of the major areas of contribution during this time are listed below ... 

Includes joint appointments in pharmacy schools (1881, 1886, 1889, and 1906) a medical school chemistry chait (1903) and directorship of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research (1937). 

Paul Flory spent about equal time as a research scientist in industry and academia but his preference was for the latter. He was born in Sterling, IL in 1910 and after making important contributions to the science of macromolecules at DuPont, Standard Oil, Goodyear, Mellon Institute and the Universities of Cincinnati and Cornell, migrated to Stanford where he was honored by the receipt of numerous awards including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at Big Sur, CA in 1985. 

In spite of his interest in university research and his less than satisfactory experiences in industry, Professor Flory left Cornell in 1956 to accept a position as Executive Director of Research at Mellon Institute. While at Mellon, Flory formulated a theory for solutions of rod-shaped macromolecules based on a lattice model (12). He left Pittsburgh in 1961 to accept the Jackson-Wood... 

College and university laboratories were excluded from the NRC surveys, but an appendix of those institutions offering research service to local industry was initiated in the 1946 edition. Government laboratories were also excluded, except for the National Bureau of Standards and the research service of the Department of Agriculture. The former was first included in 1938 and the latter in 1946. By 1950 an appendix had appeared covering some federal government laboratories. Trade association laboratories, research institutes (such as the Mellon Institute), and consulting laboratories (such as A. D. Little, Inc.) were included in the directories. 

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