Charles Milton Altland Stine (18 October 1882 – 28 May 1954) was a chemist and a vice-president of DuPont who created the laboratory from which nylon and other significant inventions were made.
He developed improved methods for manufacture of ammonium nitrate, extraction of tetryl from dimethylaniline, picric acid from chlorobenzene, and for chlorinating benzene.
[1] After becoming director of DuPont's Chemicals Department in 1924, Dr. Stine was able to hire Dr. Wallace Carothers away from teaching at Harvard University.
[3] In 1942 when General Leslie Groves first proposed that du Pont take over plutonium production for the Manhattan Project both Vice President Willis Harrington and chemist Dr Stine protested that the company had no experience or knowledge of physics and that they were incompetent to render any opinion except that the entire project seemed beyond human capability.
The son of a minister, Stine also wrote a book about his faith and his work as a scientist, entitled A Chemist and His Bible, published in 1943.