| Description |
sound recordings: cassettes ( 180 mins.) |
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Transcript : ( 52 leaves) ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Chemical Heritage Foundation Oral History Transcript ; 0065.
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| Note |
Interview conducted by Peter J. T. Morris at Westfield, New Jersey. |
| Summary |
Peter Morris starts this interview by asking Donald Green and Willard Asbury about the early years at Standard Oil Development Company and the influence of Frank Howard and Eger Murphree. The arc process is discussed as well as the level of assistance obtained from IG Farben; Green and Asbury recall the IG research organization. The wartime pressures during the development of GR-S, and the problems at the Baton Rouge plant are discussed by Green, while Asbury tells of his visit to Germany with the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. The political recriminations of the prewar cooperation between Standard Oil and IG Farben are recollected as are visits to Germany in the 1930s and 1950s. The interview ends with a survey of the postwar move into chemicals, the Ziegler process and the future of the oil and petrochemical industries. |
| Cite As |
Donald A. Green and Willard C. Asbury, interviewed by Peter J. T. Morris at Westfield, NJ, 9 December 1985 (Philadelphia: Science History Institute, Oral History Transcript 0065.) |
| Note |
Both Donald Green and Willard Asbury died before this interview was edited and annotated. |
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Sound recordings Science History Institute. |
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Transcript Science History Institute. |
| Use |
No restrictions on access. Reproduction and use with permission. |
| Biography |
Green was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 24 October 1905. Education: S.B., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1926), S.M., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1927). Employment: 1927-1929 Atmospheric Nitrogen Company, 1929-1930 Solvay Process Company. 1930-1935 Standard Oil Company, 1936-1958 Esso Research and Engineering Company. 1958-1966 Enjay Chemical Company. |
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Asbury was born in Portland, Maine on 16 December 1900. Education: S.B., chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925). Employment: 1925-1927 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1927-1929 Standard Oil Company of Louisiana. 1930-1933 Hydrogenation Engineering and Chemical Company, 1935-1936 Standard Oil International Company, 1936-1940 Standard Oil Company, International Associates Ltd, 1929-1947 Standard Oil Development Company, 1947-1965 Esso Research and Engineering Company. |
| Indexes |
Transcript has been indexed. |
| Note |
Part or all of this item has been digitized by Science History Institute. |
| Subject(s) |
Green, Donald A., 1905- -- Interviews.
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Asbury, Willard C., 1900- -- Interviews.
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United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
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Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft.
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Atmospheric Nitrogen Company.
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Solvay Process Company.
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Standard Oil Company.
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Esso Research and Engineering Company.
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Hydrogenation Engineering and Chemical Company.
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Enjay Chemical Company.
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Standard Oil Development Company.
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Chemical engineers -- Biography.
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Chemical engineers -- Interviews.
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Petroleum chemicals industry.
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Petroleum industry and trade.
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Ziegler-Natta catalysts.
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| Genre |
Oral histories.
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Interviews. aat
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| Alternate Author |
Asbury, Willard C. 1900- interviewee.
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Morris, Peter J. T. (Peter John Turnbull), 1956- interviewer.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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| Alternate Title |
Donald A. Green and Willard C. Asbury oral history interview. |
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Oral history interview with Willard C. Asbury |
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Williard C. Asbury oral history interview. |
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