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Scientists long suspected that polymers-macromolecules made up of chains of smaller molecules-might be custom-tailored to create an almost infinite variety of materials. Flory, who began his work 40 years ago as a member of the Du Pont research team that developed nylon, showed the way. He devised methods of analyzing and studying polymers that made it possible to develop new plastics and other synthetics on a systematic basis. He also found that there is a specific temperature (now known as the Flory temperature) at which each polymer exists in an ideal state for study of its properties...
...year term remaining, Brimmer has resigned from the board to return to the "unlimited freedom" of the corporate and academic worlds. He will be come a visiting professor at Harvard's business school and next week will be elected the first black member of Du Pont's board of directors...
...Brimmer is regarded as one of the top economists in the nation. The first black man on the Federal Reserve Board and, as of this week, the first on the Du Pont board of directors, Brimmer comes back to Harvard this month--17 years after he received his Ph.D at the Business School--to assume the post of Carroll Ford Visiting Professor of Business Administration...
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...diem. Dick Gustafson, a former chemist, derives a nearly six-figure income from trade shows. "It's no trick," he insists. "For example, I link steel rings together at a show to demonstrate how a chemist will link molecules together to make fibers for, say, Du Pont. Sometimes I float my wife in the air to emphasize the lightness of a fabric." Conjurer Milbourne Christopher, historian of the art, has floated a cake of soap in mid-air for Procter & Gamble, and produced a sales manager out of an empty box for American Motors...