Samuel Wetherill
A wealthy Quaker, chemist, and inventor, Samuel Wetherill discovered the first process for refining zinc ore to create zinc...
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Dr. Sam Niedbala
As co-founder and leading chemist of Bethlehem-based medical technology firm Orasure, Dr. Sam Niedbala pioneered new medical technology to...
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As one of the few female scientific researchers of the 1960’s and 1970’s, Marjorie Nemes made advances in the...
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An industrial Renaissance man of sorts, Russell Keller Laros patented and produced a synthetic blood plasma, known as plavolex,...
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Serving as professor of chemistry at Lehigh University since 1972, Dr. Ned Heindel has impacted the nation’s higher education...
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In 1905, Rozi Gosztonyi became the first female bank president in Pennsylvania’s history. Arriving in Bethlehem in 1892 with...
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