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Plank, Charles J.

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Plank, Charles J. (1915–  ) chemist, inventor; born in Calcutta, India (the son of American missionary parents). Educated at Purdue University, he joined a forerunner of the Mobil Oil Corporation in 1941. With Edward J. Rosinski, he invented the first commercially applicable apparatus for the cracking of hydrocarbons, a necessary process in petroleum production. In 1970 he became senior scientist at Mobil Oil, the company's highest scientific post.


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