Education
Oenslager attended Harrisburg & Phillips Exeter Academies, Bachelor of Arts 1894, Department of Administration and Management 1896.
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George Oenslager
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He first introduced carbon black as a rubber reinforcing agent in 1912. He first worked for the Warren Paper Company in Maine from 1896 until 1905. He then worked for the Diamond & Benjamin Franklin Goodrich Rubber Companies from 1905 until 1940.
During World War I Oenslager inflated the first Hydrogen Balloon in the United States. Oenslager received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard under Professor
Theodore William Richards. He was awarded the Perkin Medal in 1933 for his discovery of organic accelerators, specifically thiocarbanilide.
This development crucial to the commercialization of both natural and synthetic rubber.
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Charles Goodyear Medal Charles Goodyear Medal; Perkin Medal
The Charles Goodyear Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division.; The Perkin Medal is an award given annually by the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry to a scientist residing in America for an 'innovation in applied chemistry resulting in outstanding commercial development'.The Charles Goodyear Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division.; The Perkin Medal is an award given annually by the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry to a scientist residing in America for an 'innovation in applied chemistry resulting in outstanding commercial development'.