Oral history interview with Paul W. Morgan
- 1986-Mar-15
Oral history interview with Paul W. Morgan
- 1986-Mar-15
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Paul Morgan starts the interview by describing his childhood in Maine and his family background, high school, and early interests. After undergraduate studies at the University of Maine, Morgan did graduate research at Ohio State University on naturally-occurring plant pigments and continued with post-doctoral work on cellulose derivatives. He describes his Du Pont investigations of the synthesis of polymers, with particular emphasis on interfacial polycondensation. Incorporated into the interview are Morgan's reflections on scientific publication from an industrial setting.
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About the Interviewer
Herman Skolnik received a BS in chemical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Hercules, Inc., as a research chemist in 1942, and served as a divisional research manager from 1952 until his retirement in 1979. He was the founding editor of The Journal of Chemical Documentation, and has published over 200 papers and four books, including A Century of Chemistry, the centennial history of the American Chemical Society.
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Interviewee biographical information
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Education
| Year | Institution | Degree | Discipline |
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| 1937 | University of Maine | BS | Chemistry |
| 1940 | Ohio State University | PhD | Organic Chemistry |
Professional Experience
Ohio State University
- 1937 to 1940 Teaching Assistant, chemistry
- 1940 to 1941 Du Pont Fellow
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- 1941 to 1946 Research Chemist
- 1946 to 1957 Research Associate
- 1957 to 1973 Research Fellow
- 1973 to 1976 Senior Research Fellow
Honors
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| 1959 | Best Publication Award, Delaware Section, American Chemical Society |
| 1976 | Polymer Chemistry Award, American Chemical Society |
| 1976 | Howard N. Potts Medal, The Franklin Institute |
| 1977 | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering |
| 1977 | Best Publication Award, Delaware Section, American Chemical Society |
| 1978 | Engineering Materials Achievement Award, American Society for Metals |
| 1978 | Swinburne Award, Plastics and Rubber Institute of Great Britain |
| 1978 | Kenneth Hertel Lectureship, University of Tennessee |
| 1979 | W. H. Rauscher Memorial Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 1979 | Midgley Award, Detroit Section, American Chemical Society |
| 1982 | Honorary Member, The Fiber Society |
| 1986 | Delaware Section Award, American Chemical Society |
| 1987 | Whitby Memorial Lectureship, University of Akron |
| 1988 | World Materials Congress Award |
| 1988 | Carothers Award Lecture, Delaware Section, American Chemical Society |
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Complete transcript of interview
The published version of the transcript may diverge from the interview audio due to edits to the transcript made by staff of the Center for Oral History, often at the request of the interviewee, during the transcript review process.