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Agricultural chemicals

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

DuPont Company, Agricultural Products Department records

 Collection
Accession: 2256
Abstract:

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's Agricultural Products Department was responsible for the research, development, and manufacturing of organic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and other agricultural chemicals. The records include a history of the department, chronology of the benzimidazole fungicide development, history of the technical development of Benomyl, and a small collection of papers from Ralph K. Iler (1909-1985) describing the department's fundamental research program on inorganic chemistry.

Dates: 1939-1986

George Levitt laboratory notebooks

 Collection
Accession: 2316
Abstract:

George Levitt (1925-), a DuPont Company chemist working at the Experimental Station, discovered sulfonylurea (SU) herbicides in 1976 after two decades of experimentation. This collection consists of six of Levitt's laboratory notebooks documenting milestones in herbicide discovery.

Dates: 1956-1980