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E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Dupont Timeline:

• World's third largest chemical company (2012) • $34.8 billion yearly revenue (2012) 1802: Eleuthere Irenee du Pont founds company • Ranked 66th largest company in the US • became leader in gun powder production • R&D facilities in China, Japan, Taiwan, Indian, Germany, Switzerland and US • ﬁrst powder mill in Willimington, Delaware • 4th largest polluter of 2010: Mother Jones Top 20 Polluters • Sponsor of Jeff Gordon's car (NASCAR) • company is passed down for generations for for 100 years

5 Business Categories: 1902: Beginning of chemical research at DuPont 1. Electronics Communication Tech. 2. Performance Materials • Alfred DuPont and partners purchase compnay and create 3. Coatings and Color Tech. laboratories for general chemical research (not just gun 4. Safety and Protection powder) 5. Agriculture and Nutrition

1927: Wallace Carothers joins DuPont, invents everything • In one remarkable month, April 1930, Carothers’ team Things you use from DuPont: discovered neoprene synthetic rubber and synthesized the first polyester super polymer, the forerunner of nylon. During Tyvek Polyoxymethylene Teflon his nine years with DuPont, Carothers filed for more than 50 patents

1939: Nylon production begins = $$$

1957: Dupont Central Research Dept. • most noteworthy fundamental research is done here • purpose was to discover the next nylon And Corian, Freon, Kevlar, Naﬁon, Nomex, Neoprene, Nomex

1991: Dupont Merck Pharmaceutical company Search Methods: • Dupont buys out Merck's half in 1998 • Sciﬁnder: "Company Search" for Dupont • Discovers Cozaar, Cardiolite and Sinemet • Limit to articles between 1960 and 2000 yield of 12k articles: ~ 2.5k abstracts • BMS buys out pharmaceutical arm of Dupont in 2001 • Limit to scientiﬁc journal articles