John Higgins Wallace Jr. (August 3, 1906 – March 22, 1989) was the research chemist at Carter-Wallace that formulated

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in 1935.

Biography

He was born on August 3, 1906, in

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. He earned bachelor's and doctorate degrees from Princeton University. In 1934 he bought the laboratory where he had been a consulting chemist and named it Wallace Laboratories. It merged with Carter Products to become Carter-Wallace where he developed

in 1935. He left the company in 1951 to work at

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where he retired as the director in 1969. He was also president of

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. He died on March 22, 1989.

References

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