Robert Augustus Chesebrough
1837–1933
American chemist. Discovered petroleum jelly at the Pennsylvania oil fields in 1859. Set up a factory for the purification of petroleum jelly in 1870. From 1872, the purified product was sold under the trade name Vaseline.
Sources
‘Vaseline’, http://www.vaseline.co.uk/article/vaselinestory.html (accessed 20 August 2019)
WWWA
Bibliography
WWWA: Who was who in America. A companion to Who’s Who in America. 9 vols., historical vol., and index. Chicago: A. N. Marquis. 1943–89.
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