Word: butyl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEWITT: Orange County, Providence, New Haven; don't ask. I had my accident in Cambridge. Never been the same. I'll never get laid again. Can't even eat. Spent the years since slurping butyl nitrate through a straw. You should see the zits...
Died. William J. Sparks, 71, co-inventor of butyl rubber and the holder of 145 patents; after a long illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Joining the Standard Oil Co. (now Exxon) in 1936 as a research chemist, he soon helped develop the synthetic rubber so vital to Allied forces during World War II. Sparks often expressed his concern that young scientists be taught an obligation to society. Said he: "Science without purpose is an art without responsibility...