Max Gergel

He graduated with a BS in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1942 and founded the Columbia Organic Chemical Company in 1944; he was a cousin of the Hon.

[2][3] He died in Columbia, South Carolina, on July 5, 2017, aged 96.

[4] The first volume of his autobiography Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?

[5] Research chemist Derek Lowe described the book as an "extraordinary memoir".

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