Parry Norling (1939-) was a career research chemist and manager with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Norling was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 17, 1939. He received his undergraduate degree in physical science from Harvard in 1961 and his doctorate in polymer chemistry from Princeton in 1965. In that year, he joined E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company as a research chemist in the Electrochemicals Department. He retired in 1999 as Planning Director in DuPont Corporate Research and Development and remained in part-time service as Corporate Technology Advisor until 2001. In retirement he was a Science & Technology Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2001 to 2003 and a visiting fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation to 2004 to 2009.