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IN accepting the Chemical Industry Medal for 1935, at the meeting of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, at the Chemists' Club, New York, on November 8, Dr. Edward R. Weidlein, director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pa., described some of the scientific investigations at the Institute. The Mellon Institute is an industrial experiment station, a training school for industrial scientific workers, a centre for research in pure, as well as applied, chemistry, and a clearing-house on specific scientific information for the public. Dr. Weidlein said that the Mellon Institute has shown about 3,600 American companies, either as individuals or as members of industrial associations, that scientific research, properly carried out, is profitable to them. Most of the problems accepted for study during 1911-35 have been solved satisfactorily. The Institute has also been active in stimulating research in other laboratories and in collaborating with other research establishments, both in the United States and abroad. It is best known, however, by the commercial processes that it has evolved (582 U.S. patents) and by its additions to the literature of chemistry and allied sciences (18 books, 122 bulletins, and 1,727 papers). During the past twenty-four years, the Institute has received more than 10,000,000 dollars from industrial fellowship donors to defray the cost of scientific investigations conducted for these companies and associations. Dr. Weidlein referred to no less than ten new industries that have come from these researches. In conclusion, he said that they hope to occupy the Institute's new building early next year.
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Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. Nature 136, 789–790 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136789c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136789c0