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".
This biographical article about an American chemist is a stub.