Photographs from the Papers of Rudolph Pariser

Rudolph Pariser was born in China on December 8, 1923. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and subsequently attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1950. After graduating, he obtained a position at Dupont's Jackson Laboratory as a research chemist. In 1951, working with Robert Parr and John Pople, they developed the Pariser-Parr-Pople method, an innovative theory that was useful in predicting the physical and chemical nature of a molecule. Pariser later became interested in polymer science, and oversaw many new products developed at Dupont. He retired from Dupont in 1989 and continued working as a consultant and as president of Pariser & Co., Inc.