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30 unusual facts about Dupont


Andrew L. Shapiro

GreenOrder, founded in 2000, is recognized for its groundbreaking work with GE, DuPont, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer and Polo Ralph Lauren, among others.

Anguita

There is an important population of Dupont's Lark (Chersophilus duponti) in the surrounding environment.

Charles I. du Pont

He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware.

Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake

Some were organized by occupation: there were cottages that catered to circus people, for telephone workers, for the employees of the DuPont company, and for Endicott Johnson Shoes.

Delaware Route 141

Following this intersection, the route heads north between the Ferris School to the west and DuPont's Chestnut Run Plaza research facility to the east.

Detasheet

Detasheet is a flexible rubberized explosive, somewhat similar to plastic explosives, originally manufactured by DuPont.

DuPont-Guest Estate

DuPont-Guest Estate, now known as the DeSeversky Center of New York Institute of Technology's Old Westbury campus, is a historic estate located at Brookville in Nassau County, New York.

Dupont, Indiana

Dupont was founded in 1849 by James Tilton and named after the Du Pont family.

DuPont, Washington

The creek corridor is used by hundreds of species, including Bald Eagles, hawks, McKay's Bunting, song birds, herons, ducks, owls, frogs, salamanders, snakes, beaver, raccoons, coyotes, deer, and rabbits.

Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park

The park draws its name from Edward Ball, the DuPont family financial manager who sold the park lands to the state of Florida and its contained Wakulla Springs, one of the world's largest and deepest first-order freshwater springs and an exit point of the Floridan Aquifer.

Flusilazole

Flusilazole (DPX-H6573) is an organosilicon fungicide invented by DuPont, which is used to control fungal infections on a variety of fruit and vegetable crops.

Francis Rogallo

When the DuPont company announced the development of Mylar in 1952, Rogallo immediately saw how superior it would be for his kite, and the five-dollar toy 'Flexikite' became one of the first products to use the plastic material.

Investor Network on Climate Risk

In 2007, more than 20 leading companies, including Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and others, issued a formal call for national legislation calling for significant reductions in GHG emissions.

Jacob Broom

He sold his mill property in 1802 to the DuPonts and it became the center of the DuPont manufacturing empire.

Jacob Haight Morrison

1974, two months before his death, Morrison and his wife received the Louise DuPont Crownshield Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their outstanding work.

Linda Fisher

Linda J. Fisher is a Vice President Safety, Health and Environment and Chief Sustainability Officer of DuPont.

Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont

- Without contradiction this is the finest he has made, even including that of Cherubini.

Maydown

Maydown is an industrial zone and was the site of the first DuPont production facility in Europe.

Monegros Desert

Highly endangered are Great and Little Bustards, Eurasian Stone-curlew, Lesser Kestrel, Montagu's Harrier and Dupont's Lark, as these species are directly threatened by changes in the steppe ecosystem.

New Jersey Route 140

Also, the main entrance to the DuPont Chamber Works facility is located at the end on US Route 130.

The route heads eastward as Hawks Bridge Road, passing through forestry east of the DuPont riverside factory.

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

It would become one of the largest and most successful American corporations: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.

They had two sons who survived to adulthood, including Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company in the United States.

Scott Lagasse

In 1995, Lagasse signed to drive the #24 DuPont Chevrolet Silverado for BSR Racing in the Craftsman Truck Series The first year team was owned by Billy Hess and Butch Stevens with sponsorship from Dupont/Hendrick.

Shellpot Branch

An additional non-electrified track which serves DuPont's Edgemoor freight siding splits off from the NEC at the Interstate 495 underpass.

The Siegfried Group

The Siegfried Group’s business model evolved when in 1995 it assisted DuPont in staffing the financial carve-out of a textile and fibers business entity that the chemical company had sold.

Theodore Van Kirk

For the next 35 years he held various technical and managerial positions in research and marketing with DuPont.

Timeline of Goan history

One person was killed during violent protests by farmers and environmental activists opposed to the construction of a Thapar-DuPont Nylon 6,6 nylon cord yarn factory which they feared would pollute the state's extensive river system.

Tovex

The Tovex family of products, sometimes generically called "water gels," were developed by the old Explosives Department at DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc.) in the mid-to-late 1960s when pelletized TNT was included in aqueous gels to create a slurry form of ANFO that displayed water-resistant properties in wet bore holes.

Velda Jones-Potter

She worked for DuPont for 17 years and as an executive vice-president for MBNA.


2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash

The other people on board were Joe Jackson, a DuPont executive; Scott Lathram, a pilot for driver Tony Stewart; and pilots Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison.

Berkeley APEC Study Center

Research affiliates include Professor Cédric Dupont of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland; Professor Seung Joo Lee at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea; Assistant Professor Min Gyo Koo at Seoul's Yonsei university, Professor John Ravenhill at Australian National University, and Professor Shujiro Urata at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

Bipack

Eastman, Agfa, Gevaert, and DuPont all manufactured bipack film stock for use as a colour process from 1920s onwards.

Brian Whitesell

He joined Hendrick Motorsports in 1993 as a transporter driver, timer/scorer, and chassis technical on rookie Jeff Gordon's #24 DuPont team.

Camilla Gottschalck

Camilla Gottschalck has for instance worked with and is trained by Sarah Boberg, Pia Bovin, Lane Lind, Jesper Lohmann, Ken Vedsegaard, Inge Dinesen, Finn Hesselager, Mei Oulund, Bronwen Loshak and Peter Dupont Weiss.

Charles Stine

After becoming director of Dupont's chemical department in 1924, Dr. Stine was able to hire Dr. Wallace Carothers away from teaching at Harvard.

Donaldson Brown

In 1918 he assisted in arranging DuPont's purchase of a substantial stake in General Motors from previous chairman William C. Durant, and later that year became treasurer of DuPont replacing Raskob.

Edward Robert Armstrong

However, Mr Armstrong's efforts with DuPont and Sun Ship Building, owned by Sun Oil, led his ideas and basic designs to be used by the oil industry to create the Semi-submersible off shore oil rig.

Ethel Roosevelt

Ethel du Pont, Ethel Roosevelt Warren née duPont, (1916–1965), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

Evogene

The company cooperates with some of the leading seed companies around the world, among them, Syngenta, DuPont, Monsanto and Bayer, in order to develop and commercialize its technology, especially with regard to corn, soy and wheat.

Fort DuPont

From 1934 until 1936, Fort DuPont and the 1st Engineer Regiment were commanded by Col. Ulysses S. Grant III, the grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant.

George Thorogood

Thorogood was born on February 24, 1950 and was raised in Naamans Manor, a neighborhood in suburban Wilmington, Delaware, where his father worked for DuPont.

Georges-Hilaire Dupont

Dupont was born in Virey, France and was ordained a priest on May 9, 1943 from the religious order Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

IBM 1720

Only three 1720 systems were ever built: one for the Amoco oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana; one for the Socal oil refinery in El Segundo, California; and one for E. I. du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware.

Ihor R. Lemischka

His awards include a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral, a Leukemia Social Special Fellowship, an American Cyanamid Preceptorship Award and the DuPont Young Faculty Grant.

Jacques Pierre Brissot

He married Félicité Dupont (1759–1818), who translated English works, including Oliver Goldsmith and Robert Dodsley.

Jacques-Nicolas Gobert

He set out from Madrid with a division on 2 July 1808 to join General Dupont in Jaén.

Jonas Dupont

Jonas Dupont was a Frenchman who became famous for the publishing of the book De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis.

Ken Nnamani

He holds both BBA and MBA degrees from the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and has worked for Du Pont De Nemours International and Geneva and Nova Chemicals International as marketing executive and later as a consultant.

Louisiana Highway 107

In Avoyelles Parish, LA 107 continues north to a point known as Dupont where it curves to the east and intersects LA 1179.

Mária Török

The advances of Mária Török have been taken up and continued in France by many psychoanalysts - among them Judith Dupont, Pascal Hachet, Lucien Melese, Claude Nachin, Jean-Claude Rouchy, Barbro Sylwan, Saverio Tomasella, and Serge Tisseron.

Maruti Suzuki

Clients who have signed up of this service include Gas Authority of India Ltd, DuPont, Reckitt Benckiser, Sona Steering, Doordarshan, Singer India, National Stock Exchange and Transworld.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

Started in 2002 with a $50 million grant from the U.S. Army, the Institute works with a corsotium of firms, including Raytheon, DuPont and Brigham and Women's Hospital, to develop new technologies in support of the Future Force Warrior system.

Patent leather

Patent leather is sometimes confused with poromeric imitation leathers such as DuPont's Corfam and Kuraray's Clarino, which are artificial materials with a similar glossy appearance.

Pierre Dupont

Pierre Dupont (April 23, 1821 – July 24, 1870), French song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Lyon.

Richard Dupont

Dupont's work draws from a variety of themes and references, and engages the Postdigital in relation to the history of sculpture and the Body art, Process art and Systems art movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Ridley Middle School

Ridley Middle School is located at Free and Dupont streets in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania 19078.

Sam Harper

Harper is the son of painter and advertising agency chairman of Needham Harper Worldwide Paul Harper Jr., and has five siblings including actress Jessica Harper, composer William Harper, illustrator Lindsay Harper duPont, Rev. Charles Harper and Diana Harper.

The Duellists

Their names were Dupont and Fournier-Sarlovèze, whom Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into d'Hubert and Fournier into Féraud.

Throughput accounting

These relationships between financial ratios as illustrated by Goldratt are very similar to a set of relationships defined by DuPont and General Motors financial executive Donaldson Brown about 1920.

Tour de Trump

On a rainy, windy evening, unknown American cyclist Thomas Craven stole the leader's jersey in the inaugural Tour de Trump, the predecessor to the Tour DuPont.

Valentin Yordanov

The petition claims that during that period, duPont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Virginia State Route 200

At the hamlet of Good Luck, SR 200 fully enters Northumberland County for the first time and the route's name becomes Jessie DuPont Memorial Highway, named for the 20th century philanthropist Jessie Ball duPont.