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Modest Tycoon Praised For Gift To Science
Houston report details Robert A Welch Foundation funding about 13 million dollars yearly to Texas colleges and universities for pure chemical research. Since starting, Texas chemical research rose over fifteenfold in three years. Welch, a modest oil and sulphur businessman from Newberry South Carolina, died in 1952 worth about 50 million. He left a simple will praising chemistry research for mankind.
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