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- From the obituary: "A believer in good government, he was a member of Common Cause. He had been a longtime member of the First Unitarian Church in Wilmington. He was a 1940 graduate of the University of Chicago and earned his PhD in organic chemistry from the same university in 1945. During the war, he worked for the War Department, researching ways to detect chemical warfare agents. After receiving his PhD, he went to work for the DuPont Company, first at Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, NJ, and later at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, DE. His early work involved ways to dye nylon. His name is on 11 patents held by DuPont. In 1961, he conceived the idea for a reverse osmosis filtration system. He worked on the project for nine years; the product became Permasep. Permasep systems now desalinate well over a billion gallons of water a day worldwide, something of which Bill was very proud. In 1971, he took a leave of absence from DuPont and taught chemistry for 2 years at the Escuela Politecnica Nacional in Quito, Ecuador. He then returned to Wilmington, DE, and continued to work for DuPont until his retirement in 1982. An inveterate tinkerer, he took delight in figuring out how things worked and when needed, adapting, modifying, fixing, or otherwise altering them in his own way. Most often, they worked the way he wanted them to."
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1918 - 2005 (86 years)
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