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  Photographs

  Signing agreement to form the Center for History of Chemistry, 1982

  • 1982

  Photographs depicting a 1982 gathering of Delaware Valley Industrialists and University of Pennsylvania officials during which an agreement to found a center of chemical history would be signed. The event was spurred by…

  • Subject University of Pennsylvania, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Haas, John C. (John Charles), Shapiro, Irving S., American Chemical Society. Division of the History of Chemistry, Business meetings
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  Oral histories

  Oral history interview with Jeffrey M. Lipton

  • 2009-Aug-04
  • 2009-Aug-12

  Jeffrey M. Lipton was born and raised in Bronx, New York, the son of a Polish immigrant. Although trained as an accountant, Lipton's father could not find work in that field and took a position in his father's (Lipton's…

  • Interviewee Lipton, Jeffrey M., 1942-
  • Interviewer Reynolds, Ron
  • Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
  • Subject Lipton, Jeffrey M., 1942-, Chemical engineering, Tide Water Oil Company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Pigments industry, Ilmenite, Conoco Inc., Shapiro, Irving S., New England Nuclear Corporation, Nova Chemicals Corporation, Industrial management, Polymers
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  8 items
  Oral histories

  Oral history interview with Irving S. Shapiro

  • 1994-Dec-15

  Irving Shapiro begins this interview by discussing his parents' backgrounds and the influence of his father's interest in law and accounting. Next Shapiro examines his own early intellectual strengths and proclivities…

  • Interviewee Shapiro, Irving S.
  • Interviewer Bohning, James J., McNulty, Bernadette R.
  • Subject Chemical industry, Corporate lawyers, United States. Office of Price Administration, United States. Department of Justice, Shapiro, Irving S., E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Jewish scientists, Jews