Ralph Landau
Ralph Landau · Science & Medicine
Chemical engineer known for the propylene oxide production process
1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 2004, San Francisco, California, USA
United States
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Landau was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur whose firm developed commercial processes for producing propylene oxide and other petrochemicals used to make plastics, antifreeze and solvents. He later became an economist of technological change at Stanford and Harvard. He is documented as being of Jewish heritage.
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Chemical engineer known for the propylene oxide production process
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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