The photo obtained of Mr. Roberts from Ancestry.com yearbook section.
Obituary, Manchester Union Leader, published in Manchester, NH Saturday, April 29, 2000.
John B. Roberts, research chemical engineer of Cokesbury Village, Hockessin, DE, died on April 26 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE at age 86. Born in Manchester, NH in April 1913 to Arthur O and Edith B Roberts, he attended St Paul's School in Concord, NH and graduate summa cum laude in 1934 from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His maternal grandfather Henry E. Burnham, was United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1901-1913. As an inventor of 5 US patents, he made several significant contributions to engineering technology and technical literature. After earning his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, Mr. Roberts worked at the Engineering Department of E.I Dupont de Nemours Company in Wilimington DE. At Deepwater NJ, he made process improvements in the manufacturer of Freon refrigerants, synthetic detergents, and neoprene synthetic rubber. Later, he led a group at the Jackson Labortatory which worked on process and design development for various fluoro products that were critical to the success of the Manhatten Project during World War II. After transferring to the Technical Division at the duPont Experimental Station in 1948, he pioneered many new engineering technologies, such as the application of computers to chemical engineering, and he was invited to give the 1955 Annual Lecture to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on that topic. As the Assistant Director of Chemical Engineering, he developed programs that used comupters to machine specialized tools and unique parts for spinning polymer filments and extruding plastic sheeting. Later, as the Department's first Senior Engineering Fellow, he headed task forces that identified engineering needs for environmental pollution abatement, and guided process selection and reactor design for converting coal into chemical feedstocks. After retiring, Mr Roberts traveled extensively throughout Europe, extended knowledge of family genealogy, and worked to preserve the architetural intergrity of Wawaset Park in Wilmington. An avid skier and mountaineer in his youth, he recently endowed an intership to further scientific research at the Mt. Washington Observatory in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Acadeny of Lifelong Learning, the Magna Charta Society, and the DuPont and Greenville Country Clubs His sister, Elizabeth Roberts Tebbets died in 1991. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jane Clayton Rile Roberts, his sons Bruce Burnham Roberts of Yarmouth ME and Douglas Clayton Roberts of Amherst, MA, and three grandaughters Lisa, Dana and Laurie.
Funeral Services will be held at Goodwin Funeral Home in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, May 3 at 1:30 pm with internment thereafter at Pine Grove Cemetery. A memorial service will also be held at the Chapel in Cokesbury Village, Hockessin DE. on Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Delware Chapter. (PAID NOTICE)
Obituary, Manchester Union Leader, published in Manchester, NH Saturday, April 29, 2000.
John B. Roberts, research chemical engineer of Cokesbury Village, Hockessin, DE, died on April 26 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE at age 86. Born in Manchester, NH in April 1913 to Arthur O and Edith B Roberts, he attended St Paul's School in Concord, NH and graduate summa cum laude in 1934 from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His maternal grandfather Henry E. Burnham, was United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1901-1913. As an inventor of 5 US patents, he made several significant contributions to engineering technology and technical literature. After earning his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, Mr. Roberts worked at the Engineering Department of E.I Dupont de Nemours Company in Wilimington DE. At Deepwater NJ, he made process improvements in the manufacturer of Freon refrigerants, synthetic detergents, and neoprene synthetic rubber. Later, he led a group at the Jackson Labortatory which worked on process and design development for various fluoro products that were critical to the success of the Manhatten Project during World War II. After transferring to the Technical Division at the duPont Experimental Station in 1948, he pioneered many new engineering technologies, such as the application of computers to chemical engineering, and he was invited to give the 1955 Annual Lecture to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on that topic. As the Assistant Director of Chemical Engineering, he developed programs that used comupters to machine specialized tools and unique parts for spinning polymer filments and extruding plastic sheeting. Later, as the Department's first Senior Engineering Fellow, he headed task forces that identified engineering needs for environmental pollution abatement, and guided process selection and reactor design for converting coal into chemical feedstocks. After retiring, Mr Roberts traveled extensively throughout Europe, extended knowledge of family genealogy, and worked to preserve the architetural intergrity of Wawaset Park in Wilmington. An avid skier and mountaineer in his youth, he recently endowed an intership to further scientific research at the Mt. Washington Observatory in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Acadeny of Lifelong Learning, the Magna Charta Society, and the DuPont and Greenville Country Clubs His sister, Elizabeth Roberts Tebbets died in 1991. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jane Clayton Rile Roberts, his sons Bruce Burnham Roberts of Yarmouth ME and Douglas Clayton Roberts of Amherst, MA, and three grandaughters Lisa, Dana and Laurie.
Funeral Services will be held at Goodwin Funeral Home in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, May 3 at 1:30 pm with internment thereafter at Pine Grove Cemetery. A memorial service will also be held at the Chapel in Cokesbury Village, Hockessin DE. on Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Delware Chapter. (PAID NOTICE)
The photo obtained of Mr. Roberts from Ancestry.com yearbook section.
Obituary, Manchester Union Leader, published in Manchester, NH Saturday, April 29, 2000.
John B. Roberts, research chemical engineer of Cokesbury Village, Hockessin, DE, died on April 26 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE at age 86. Born in Manchester, NH in April 1913 to Arthur O and Edith B Roberts, he attended St Paul's School in Concord, NH and graduate summa cum laude in 1934 from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His maternal grandfather Henry E. Burnham, was United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1901-1913. As an inventor of 5 US patents, he made several significant contributions to engineering technology and technical literature. After earning his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, Mr. Roberts worked at the Engineering Department of E.I Dupont de Nemours Company in Wilimington DE. At Deepwater NJ, he made process improvements in the manufacturer of Freon refrigerants, synthetic detergents, and neoprene synthetic rubber. Later, he led a group at the Jackson Labortatory which worked on process and design development for various fluoro products that were critical to the success of the Manhatten Project during World War II. After transferring to the Technical Division at the duPont Experimental Station in 1948, he pioneered many new engineering technologies, such as the application of computers to chemical engineering, and he was invited to give the 1955 Annual Lecture to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on that topic. As the Assistant Director of Chemical Engineering, he developed programs that used comupters to machine specialized tools and unique parts for spinning polymer filments and extruding plastic sheeting. Later, as the Department's first Senior Engineering Fellow, he headed task forces that identified engineering needs for environmental pollution abatement, and guided process selection and reactor design for converting coal into chemical feedstocks. After retiring, Mr Roberts traveled extensively throughout Europe, extended knowledge of family genealogy, and worked to preserve the architetural intergrity of Wawaset Park in Wilmington. An avid skier and mountaineer in his youth, he recently endowed an intership to further scientific research at the Mt. Washington Observatory in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Acadeny of Lifelong Learning, the Magna Charta Society, and the DuPont and Greenville Country Clubs His sister, Elizabeth Roberts Tebbets died in 1991. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jane Clayton Rile Roberts, his sons Bruce Burnham Roberts of Yarmouth ME and Douglas Clayton Roberts of Amherst, MA, and three grandaughters Lisa, Dana and Laurie.
Funeral Services will be held at Goodwin Funeral Home in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, May 3 at 1:30 pm with internment thereafter at Pine Grove Cemetery. A memorial service will also be held at the Chapel in Cokesbury Village, Hockessin DE. on Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Delware Chapter. (PAID NOTICE)
Obituary, Manchester Union Leader, published in Manchester, NH Saturday, April 29, 2000.
John B. Roberts, research chemical engineer of Cokesbury Village, Hockessin, DE, died on April 26 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE at age 86. Born in Manchester, NH in April 1913 to Arthur O and Edith B Roberts, he attended St Paul's School in Concord, NH and graduate summa cum laude in 1934 from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. His maternal grandfather Henry E. Burnham, was United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1901-1913. As an inventor of 5 US patents, he made several significant contributions to engineering technology and technical literature. After earning his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936, Mr. Roberts worked at the Engineering Department of E.I Dupont de Nemours Company in Wilimington DE. At Deepwater NJ, he made process improvements in the manufacturer of Freon refrigerants, synthetic detergents, and neoprene synthetic rubber. Later, he led a group at the Jackson Labortatory which worked on process and design development for various fluoro products that were critical to the success of the Manhatten Project during World War II. After transferring to the Technical Division at the duPont Experimental Station in 1948, he pioneered many new engineering technologies, such as the application of computers to chemical engineering, and he was invited to give the 1955 Annual Lecture to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on that topic. As the Assistant Director of Chemical Engineering, he developed programs that used comupters to machine specialized tools and unique parts for spinning polymer filments and extruding plastic sheeting. Later, as the Department's first Senior Engineering Fellow, he headed task forces that identified engineering needs for environmental pollution abatement, and guided process selection and reactor design for converting coal into chemical feedstocks. After retiring, Mr Roberts traveled extensively throughout Europe, extended knowledge of family genealogy, and worked to preserve the architetural intergrity of Wawaset Park in Wilmington. An avid skier and mountaineer in his youth, he recently endowed an intership to further scientific research at the Mt. Washington Observatory in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Acadeny of Lifelong Learning, the Magna Charta Society, and the DuPont and Greenville Country Clubs His sister, Elizabeth Roberts Tebbets died in 1991. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jane Clayton Rile Roberts, his sons Bruce Burnham Roberts of Yarmouth ME and Douglas Clayton Roberts of Amherst, MA, and three grandaughters Lisa, Dana and Laurie.
Funeral Services will be held at Goodwin Funeral Home in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, May 3 at 1:30 pm with internment thereafter at Pine Grove Cemetery. A memorial service will also be held at the Chapel in Cokesbury Village, Hockessin DE. on Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Delware Chapter. (PAID NOTICE)
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