Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Today: June 24 – Birthday of E.I.du Pont

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born American chemist and industrialist who emmigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the gunpowder manufacturing business, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the centuries Du Pont family, were one of America's richest and most prominent families in the nineteenth and twentieth.

Source: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Eleuthere_Irenee_du_Pont


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