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Herbert Henry Dow

@herbertdow

Canadian American chemical industrialist (1866–1930)

Building Dow Chemical Company as Founder · United States

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Lived
1866–1930
Educated at
Case Western Reserve University

About

Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930) was a chemist and inventor. They were born in Ontario. They studied at Case Western Reserve University.

In context

Dow Chemical Company was founded in 1897 and closed in 2017, after 120 years. Among the 6 other chemical industry companies founded in the 1890s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 91 years, so this one outlasted most of them.

Contribution

Herbert's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.

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