Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Crawford Greenewalt, fully Crawford Hallock Greenewalt

American Chemical Engineer, President and Chairman of the DuPont Company

"Behind every advance of the human race is a germ of creation growing in the mind of some long individual. An individual whose dreams waken him in the night while others lie contentedly asleep."