John Higgins Wallace, Jr.

John Higgins Wallace, Jr. (August 3, 1906 – March 22, 1989) was the research chemist at Carter-Wallace that formulated Arrid deodorant in 1935.^[1]

Biography

He was born on August 3, 1906 in Greenville, Kentucky. He earned bachelor's and doctorate degrees from Princeton University. In 1934 he bought the laboratory where he had been a consulting chemist and named it Wallace Laboratories. It merged with Carter Products to become Carter-Wallace where he developed Arrid deodorant in 1935. He left the company in 1951 to work at Forrestal Research Center where he retired as the director in 1969. He was also president of Princeton Medical Center. He died on March 22, 1989.^[2]

References

1. "John Higgins Wallace Jr.". 1951. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
2. "John Wallace, 82, Chemist and Executive". New York Times. March 24, 1989. Retrieved 2011-09-27. John H. Wallace, a chemical company executive and former director of the James Forrestal Research Center at Princeton University, died Wednesday at his home in Princeton after a long illness. He was 82 years old. ...