In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In view of the experience I had acquired in the field of chemical industry, certain Italian government and industrial bodies entrusted me in 1938 with the task of instituting research and development studies on the production of synthetic rubber in Italy.
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
I established my bank in 1988.
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.
My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.