ABSTRACT
The Mellon Institute for Industrial Research was founded in 1913 on the vision of Robert Kennedy Duncan (1868-1914) (Figure 11.1). Duncan was a chemical visionary who had written several famous accounts of the state of world chemistry in the early twentieth century. He initiated a program of industrial fellowships while he was a professor at Kansas. He believed that when industrial research was carried out in the same location as fundamental research, both groups benefited from the exchange of ideas.63
