Abstract
Barbara Minor, a corporate fellow at Chemours, works in a world of cool chemicals. She designs and tests molecules that keep food from spoiling and people from overheating in hot weather. She was part of a team that developed the first refrigerants with low global-warming and no ozone-depleting potential. She also developed several refrigerants that extended the technology to supermarket refrigeration systems, refrigerated trucks, and large-building chillers. In recognition of these achievements, Minor will receive the Perkin Medal, which acknowledges outstanding work in applied chemistry, at a dinner in her honor on Sept. 25 at the Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia. Sponsored by the America Group of London-based Society of Chemical Industry, the award first went in 1906 to William Henry Perkin, who launched a textile dye revolution with the discovery of mauve in 1856. This year’s Perkin Medal recipient participated in an upheaval of a different sort, brought about by
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