She and her staff at Union Carbide created synthetic materials that improved various industrial processes, including purifying water. She also developed a way to make emeralds.
Edith Flanigen in 1990. Ms. Flanigen was so widely respected that βwhen she walked into a room of senior management at Union Carbide, they would all stand up,β a former colleague said.
When not guiding students in a compassionate approach to patient care, he led a tiny publishing imprint that put out a much-rejected debut novel that won a surprise Pulitzer Prize.