BRINGING GOOD THINGS TO LIFE

摘要

Few corporate research labs have the pedigree of General Electric's global research center in Niskayuna, N.Y., near Sche-nectady. It was founded in a barn on the Erie Canal more than 100 years ago by GE engineer Charles E Steinmetz. Irving Langmuir won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work done there in surface chemistry It is also where polycarbonate, polyphenylene oxide, and poly-ether imide were invented.