Ralph C. Schreyer | Research chemist, 87

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, June, 2007

Ralph C. Schreyer, 87, a retired research chemist, died Friday of complications from pneumonia at Kendal-Crosslands, a retirement community in Kennett Square.

A native of Washington, D.C., Dr. Schreyer earned a bachelor's degree from the Catholic University of America. During World War II, while a graduate student at Purdue University, he worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.

After earning a doctorate in organic chemistry from Purdue in 1946, he joined DuPont Co. in Wilmington. In the 1960s, he worked at DuPont's experimental station in Gibbstown, N.J., traveling by ferry from home in Wilmington. For 12 years until he retired in 1984, Dr. Schreyer was a patent agent in DuPont's...