Oral history interview with Robert B. Mesrobian [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Chemist.

Scope and Contents

Princeton, Manhattan Project, 1941-45; polymer technology, teaching at Brooklyn Polytechnic; Herman F. Mark; Fulbright professorship in Holland; 1956 to Continental Can in charge of Central Research Laboratory; general manager of centralized research and development, Chicago; establishing corporate Research and Development for long term technology, 1961; development of Conoweld can, plastic beverage bottles, durable coatings and inks, two-piece cans, enviroend cans.

Subjects

• Chemists--Interviews.
• Continental Can Company.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Mesrobian, Robert B.--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Nuclear engineering.
• Oral histories.
• Research, Industrial.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998.