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Besides being the largest single owner of Du Pont and one of the richest men in America, Copeland is also a chemist and a financial expert who believes in Andrew Carnegie's dictum: "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch them." Fiercely loyal to the closely woven clan and its company, Copeland believes, in the best big-business tradition, that Du Pont has a duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others...
...professions of the other four Commissioners, one is a physicist, one a physical chemist, and two are lawyers. "It's really quite an ingrown group--four of the five of us have offspring at Harvard or Radcliffe." And the fifth? "He doesn't have any children...
...Swiss chemist is seeking the patent on L. Lysine to sell to a U.S. firm. The Federal District Court of Washington, D.C., called Fieser into the case because of a comment in his Chemistry 20 textbook, Advanced Organic Chemistry. He had noted that the Swiss's process for isolating L. Lysine was "very ingenious...
Robert E. Wilson liked to joke that "I pose as a businessman when talking to scientists and as a scientist when talking to businessmen." The confusion was natural. Over the years Wilson was a research chemist, the chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, chairman of the American Oil Co. Occupational pigeonholers marked him down as an applied scientist - a term that in Wilson's case meant a complete man using his varied talents completely...
...chemical engineer who began his career at Pfizer as a $25-a-week control chemist, McKeen has surrounded himself with bright executives and given them complete authority to make their own decisions. He has set a goal that everyone in the company knows as "five by five"-$500 million in sales for Pfizer...