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Dayton H. Clewell
Pages 40-45

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... prospecting to his general direction of the massive research effort that produced the first commercial zeolite catalyst for the refining industry. The Great Depression was not easy on young Dayton Clewell's family, but a wealthy philanthropist recognized Dayton's potential and loaned him the money to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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From page 42...
... To encourage and focus that creativity, he installed a dual-ladder career system to provide greater opportunity for technical people to be recognized and rewarded; established a central research laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, to work on longer range technology goals; and developed large-project management capabilities within Mobil's engineering organization. These and other strategies naid off handsomely for Mobil and for society.
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... This program demonstrated the interrelationships between fuel composition, engine design, and the catalytic converter and anticipated much of the emission control technology found on today's automobiles. In 1973, when the oil embargo dramatically demonstrated to the United States the risks of dependence on Middle East oil, Dr.
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... Navy Oceanographic Advisory Committee, the Marine Petroleum and Minerals Advisory Committee reporting to the secretary of the Department of Commerce, and the Patent Advisory Panel of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration.
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... membership in several professional societies, among them the Societ,v of Automotive Engineers, the American Physical Society, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Societ,v of Exploration Geophysicists. He was also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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