Chains of Opportunity: The University of Akron and the Emergence of The Polymer Age 1909–2007

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A. Schulman, 260 accelerators, 15, 57–59 acetylene, 83 acrylic, 3 adhesives, 6 Advanced Elastomer Systems (AES), 214, 215, 254, 256 Advancement Council for the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, 216, 225, 226 Aggarwal, Sundar L., 159, 217 Air Force (United States), 96, 98, 111, 153 Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 154 Akro-Co-Twin Screw, 213 Akron Art Museum, 260 Akron Beacon Journal, 116, 148, 153, 186, 235, 239, 261, 264 Akron Global Polymer Academy, xv, 219–220, 221, 257 Akron Polymer Lecture Group, 88, 89, 112, 140 Akron Polymer Systems, 238, 239 Akron Polymer Training Center, xv, 257 Akron Public Schools, 257 Akron Regional Development Board, 165 Akron Roundtable, 164, 188 343 Akron Rubber Group, 103, 134, 140 Akron Rubber Mold, 196 Akron, Ohio, birth of rubber industry, 13 downtown revitalization, 214, 215 relationship to the University of Akron, 32, 161, 162 Rubber Capital of the World, 26, 48, 107, 139, 147, 148, 150 rubber companies leaving, 147–151, 161, 188, 216, 223 skyline, xiv, 17, 148, 163, 177, 178, 181, 185, 186 Alcoa Flexible Packaging, 209, 213 Alex Schulman Chair, in Polymer Science, 174 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 95 Altenau, A.G., 159 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 42, 133 American Chemical Society, 8, 46, 58, 63, 111, 133, 134, 154, 158, 207 Rubber Division, xv, 9, 15, 16, 88, 106, 115–117, 120, 123, 133–145, 217, 221, 323 Ammons, Ben, 172 anilines, 15 anionic polymerization, 109–111, 126 Applied Polymer Research Laboratory (University of Akron), 247 INDEX Bowles.267-364 6/16/08 4:25 PM Page 343 Applied Research Section (University of Akron), 197 Armstrong Rubber, 201 Army (United States), 36, 47, 72, 83, 110 Army Signal Corps, 96, 103 Ascot Industrial Park, 215, 216 Ashland, 244 AT&T, 184, 185 Atkinson, Wynne, 56 Auburn Science and Engineering Center (University of Akron), 115, 131–133, 137, 145, 154, 162, 177, 197 Auburn University, 110, 186 Auburn, Mark, 146 Auburn, Norman P., xiii, 49, 78, 157, 160, 171, 264 Auburn Science and Engineering Center, 131–133 Cold War, 79, 93–96, 112 comes to Akron, 91, 92 fiftieth anniversary of the teaching of rubber chemistry, 118–120 fighting to keep the synthetic rubber laboratories, 71–74 Institute of Rubber Research, 99, 100, 102, 103 International Rubber Science Hall of Fame, 116, 120 on Kelley, 153 legacy, 145 1960s achievements, 115 Ph.D. Program in Polymer Chemistry , 86, 104–107 president of Brooklyn Polytechnic, 113 relationship with Morton, 144, 145 transition from municipal to state school, 130, 131 Ayer, Frederic E., 196 Baekeland, Leo, 193, 194 Baer, Eric, 166, 168, 169, 190 Bakelite Corporation, 193 Baker, W.O., 131, 132 index 344 Ballard, John, 164, 165 Banbury mixer, 61, 194, 213 Banbury, Fernley, 194 Bartlett, Paul D., 88 Baruch Committee, 65 Baruch, Bernard M., 47 Battelle Memorial Institute, 175, 176 Bauer, Marge, 138 Bayer Materials Sciences, 260 Behney, Dale F., 137 Bement, Arden, 259 Berry, James P., 98, 105, 152 Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, 80 bias-ply tires, 150, 151 bicycle, 11, 15 Bierce Library (University of Akron), xiii, xv, 106 Biggs Boiler Works, 29 biomimicry, 232 Blackford, Mansel G., 8 block copolymerization laboratory, 220 blow molding, 202, 208 Board of Directors (Municipal University of Akron), 32, 41, 63, 66, 76, 89, 91, 100–102, 106–108, 120, 130, 131 Board of Trustees (Buchtel College), 22, 28 Board of Trustees (University of Akron), 171, 172, 178, 225, 226 Bostick, Edgar E., 107, 110, 111 Boston Woven Hose and Rubber, 15 Bouasse, Henri, 117 Bowles, Donald L., xiii, xiv, xvi, 161, 172–174, 178 Bowles, Joan, xvi, 172 Boyer, Raymond F., 89 Braun and Steidl, 217 Braunschweig Institute, 124 Bridgestone/Firestone, 9, 151, 184 Briggs and Nelson Architects, 28 Brittain, William J., xv, 283, 284, 286 Bronze Age, 1, 263 Brooklyn Polytechnic Polymer Research Institute, 9, 78, 85, 86, 104, 112, 113, 128, 158, 199, 207 Bowles.267-364 6/16/08 4:25 PM Page 344 Bruno, Katie, 260 Buchtel Avenue, xiv, 42, 177, 178, 181 Buchtel College, 12, 21–24, 27, 28, 73, 106, 130, 195 becoming a municipal university, 32 chemistry courses, 24, 26 fire, 23 first rubber course, 30–32, 38–40, 107, 118 first science laboratory, 22 founding, 16–20 library, 32 Buchtel, Elizabeth, 145 Buchtel, John R., 17, 145 Buckmaster, L.S., 139 Bueche, Fred, 152, 153 Buna-N, 53 Buna-S...