Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical Note .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 5 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 5 - Page 2 - Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 Summary Information Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: Norling, Parry Title: Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records ID: 2510 Date [inclusive]: 1902-2004 Date [bulk]: bulk 1980-1995 Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet Language of the English . Material: Abstract: Parry Norling (1939-) was a career research chemist and manager with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Records consists of company documents and outside publications collected by Norling during his time at DuPont. ^ Return to Table of Contents Biographical Note Parry Norling (1939-) was a career research chemist and manager with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Norling was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 17, 1939. He received his undergraduate degree in physical science from Harvard in 1961 and his doctorate in polymer chemistry from Princeton in 1965. In that year, he joined E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company as a research chemist in the Electrochemicals Department. He retired in 1999 as Planning Director in DuPont Corporate Research and Development and remained in part-time service as Corporate Technology Advisor until 2001. In retirement he was a Science & Technology Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2001 to 2003 and a visiting fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation to 2004 to 2009. ^ Return to Table of Contents - Page 3- Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 Scope and Content The collection contains a mix of company documents and outside publications describing research and development at DuPont. Subjects covered in the collection include: the Experimental Station; copies of dissertations and articles dealing with Research and Development and strategic planning at DuPont; a 1997 work environment study with information on African American and women workers and the Brandywine Mills Strike of 1906; biographies or memoirs of E. K. Bolton, Theodore L. Cairns, Howard E. Simmons and C.C. Ahlum; copies of oral history interviews with DuPont chemists Ivan Maxwell Robinson and Herbert S. Eleuterio; data on Ph.D.'s interviewed in 1940; annual reports of the Chemical Department (1835-1938); and a 50th anniversary history of the Haskell Laboratory. The collection also includes a plastic wall sign for DuPont's Fabricated Products Department. ^ Return to Table of Contents Administrative Information Publication Statement Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Access Restrictions Unpublished materials are closed for 25 years from date of creation. Use Restrictions Contact the Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department to access the PowerPoint presentations. ^ Return to Table of Contents - Page 4- Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 Controlled Access Headings • Industrial chemists • Research, Industrial. • Polymers. • Nylon • Biography • Oral histories • African Americans -- Employment • Women employees • E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station Collection Inventory Title/Description Instances DuPont's Lavoisier Medal for Technical Achievement publications box 1 announcing the annual winners, 1990-19931995-200120032004 Lavoisier Medal and DuPont Science Excellence Awards posters, box 1 20022003 DuPont Engineering Excellence Award publication, 1998 box 1 DuPont Experimental Station Tour documents during the du Pont box 1 Family Reunion which includes thank you notes from Pete du Pont, 2000 June 21-23 Information on DuPont's Experimental Station, 1879 1944 box 1 Scope and Contents note Subjects include directors Fin Sparre and Francis I. duPont. Includes copies of personal correspondence from Francis duPont, Eric Sparre, Bob Sparre, and Ernest N. May and unidentified photographs. DuPont Era Chart booklet prepared by The DuPont-Gemini box 1 Alliance, 1993 February 19 DuPont Data booklet containing graphic, tabular, and statistical data box 1 about the consolidated company, 1990 DuPont "Pulse Survey" Report on moral/satisfaction in the Research box 1 and Development community, 1995-1997 "The Strategic Planning Process at DuPont," by J.G. Ferrari, K. box 1 Moyer, P. Needles & J. Segal, 1995 December - Page 5- Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 "Search for Distant Returns: A Decision Making Process Model for box 1 Choices at DuPont for Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Growth," by Gaurab Bhardwaj, and submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Katz Graduate School of Business, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2000 "Work Environment Network study at DuPont over the past 200 box 1 years," by Linda C. Attix, DuPont External Affairs, 1997 Scope and Contents note includes information on women and blacks on the workforce, employee relations and 1906 Brandywine Mills strike Presentation by Parry M. Norling, Planning Director, DuPont box 1 Central Research and Development, Wilmington, DE, undated "Green Chemistry: What's Possible? A Lot!" by Joseph A. Miller, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, Colorado, 2001 June Dr. Joseph Miller and Dr. Ed Wasserman, "From Science to the Market place: A DuPont Perspective," International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, 2000 December Sales Department Bulletin #172: Ways to cut costs, including box 1 cutting out taxi and livery fares by walking, 1921 April 12 Elmer Keiser Bolton biography, chemist at DuPont, 1915-1951 box 1 Theodore L. Cairns, 1914-1994, A Biographical Memoir by Blaine box 1 C. McKusick, National Academy of Sciences, 1998 Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr., A Biographical Memoir by John D. box 1 Roberts & John W. Collette, National Academy of Sciences, 1998 Thirty-nine Years (1910-1947) with DuPont by C.C. Ahlum box 1 The Nylon Syndrome: Will the DuPont Company Survive its box 1 Greatest Achievement? by John Kenly Smith Jr. Lehigh University, circa 2002 C.H. Jepson presentation charts: DuPont Company, New Product box 1 Introductions, Polymer Products Department, C.H.Jepson, 1980 April 11 Extract copy from a Delaware Today publication article, "The Best box 1 & the Brightest" (Super Scientists), 1985 October1986 April 17 Scope and Contents note Feature articles: "PET A Global Perspective," by Nathaniel C. Wyeth, DuPont retiree, Polymer News; and "PET A Global Perspective, remarks of Nathaniel Wyeth, to American Chemical Society, New York, NY" New Economy presentation slides by unknown author, 1995 box 1 - Page 6- Parry Norling collection of DuPont Company records 2510 "Technology and Social Change," Carnegie Mellon University, 1993 box 1 June 15 "The Evolution of DuPont's Corporate Values," by Dr. Beth Haslett, box 1 a research report for Work Force Partnering, 1993 March 5 "History of Toughened Engineering Plastics," by Bennett N. box 1 Epstein, National Plastics Exposition presentation, Chicago, IL, 1985 June 18 "DuPont, A History of Diversification in Chemicals," by Alton J. box 1 Dahl, Planning Director, Corporate Research and Development, undated Script of film with James Q. du Pont, undated box 1 A paper presented at the Experimental Station, "The Big Picture in box 1 Industrial Research: or Why Isn't Industrial Research What it Used to Be?" by David A. Hounshell, Luce Professor of History, undated David A. Hounshell - cover letter & article, "Interpreting the History box 1 of Industrial Research and Development: the Case of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company", 1990 David A. Hounshell - Abstract from the book Science and Corporate box 1 Strategy DuPont Research and Development 1902 1980 by David Hounshell and John K. Smith, circa 1988 Scope and Contents note "DuPont Corporate Research and Development Directions, A Historical Perspective for Fibers" David A. Hounshell - "The Pioneering Spirit," by D.A. Hounshell, box 1 presentation at the Experimental Station, 1986 June 20 David A. Hounshell - "Nylon: An Eyewitness Story," by Joseph box 1 Labovsky (Lab Assistant to Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, Inventor of Nylon), along with, transcript of an interview conducted by John K. Smith, 1996 July 24 David A. Hounshell - "A Study of DuPont Management,"