Charles Irving Sullivan

Background

Sullivan, Charles Irving was born on November 18, 1918 in Milwaukee. Son of Charles Andrew and Bessie May (Blackwell) Sullivan.

Education

AB, Boston University, 1943. Postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947. Postgraduate, Northeastern University, 1951.

Career

Chemist Union Bay State Chemical Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1943-1946, head industrial and shoe pect., 1946-1954, group leader, 1954-1959. Manager, research and development Staley Chemical Division, A.E. Staley, 1959-1967, research associate, 1967-1969. Senior science Polaroid Corporation, 1969-1970, research associate, 1970-1979, research fellow, 1979-1985, consultant, since 1985.

Patentee in field.

Achievements

• Charles Irving Sullivan has been listed as a noteworthy polymer chemist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Institute Chemists. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, Beethoven Society (Melrose, Massachusetts).

Interests

• Violin playing, photography, environment, fly fishing.

Connections

Married Ruth Irene Wadsworth, September 4, 1948. Children: Charles Wadsworth, Janet Lynne.

Father:

Charles Andrew Sullivan

Mother:

Bessie May (Blackwell) Sullivan

Spouse:

Ruth Irene Wadsworth

child:

Charles Wadsworth Sullivan

child:

Janet Lynne Sullivan