Francesco DeMaria

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Francesco DeMaria was born in Vieste, Italy on October 17th, 1928. He is the middle of three sons born to Michele DeMaria and Vittoria Farnararo. At the age of 6 he moved to Tuscany where he remained until coming to the United States after World War II in 1947. Although he was born and raised in Italy he was a naturalized citizen of the US because his father, Michele DeMaria, had immigrated to the United States in 1908. Michele DeMaria ran a successful business in Bangor, Maine and received his U.S. Citizenship and then returned to Italy to marry Vittoria and raise his three children, Antonio, Francesco and Vincenzo. Michele served as an interpreter to the Allied Generals during and after WWII guaranteeing he and his family, including Francesco, passage to the United States shortly after the end of the war.^[1]

Four short years after arriving in New York Francesco received his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering at the prestigious Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn in 1951. Francesco went on to marry the love of his life Jacqueline Campbell on August 1, 1953. Jacqueline remained a tremendous support and inspiration to Francesco helping him earn his Masters in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn in 1956, and then his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1958. He finished his Ph.D. in record time (just two years) with Jacqueline's help. He was also designated a Hercules Fellow and Union Carbide Co. Fellow while at the University of Michigan. After receiving his Ph.D. he and Jacqueline moved to Connecticut and had three sons, Brian, Michael and Randy. ^[2]

Francesco was the group leader in the engineering research section of the Central Research Division of American Cyanamid from 1959-1964. He was also the manager of suture research in Danbury Connecticut from 1964-1966. He was the manager of industrial chemistry at the Warner's Plant in Linden, New Jersey; the manager of chemical engineering development and research at AMF, Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut from 1966-1970. He was a graduate instructor at the University of Connecticut in Stamford from 1962-1965. He is a lifetime member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and served as its vice chairman in 1972 and a member of the American Chemistry Society and served as its division secretary from 1968-1969. He contributed to numerous professional journals and a major Patantee in his field. ^[3]

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