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John C. Haas : ウィキペディア英語版 | John C. Haas
John Charles Haas (May 22, 1918 – April 2, 2011) was an American businessman and philanthropist, at one time considered the second richest man in Philadelphia. He was the chairman of global chemical company Rohm and Haas from 1974 to 1978. Under his leadership, the family's William Penn Foundation became a $2 billion grantmaking institution, ranking as one of the largest such institutions in the United States.〔 ==Early life and education == John Haas was the son of Otto Haas, founder of the chemical company Rohm and Haas, and his wife, astronomer Phoebe Waterman Haas. Rohm & Haas was founded by Otto Haas and Otto Rohm in Germany in 1907. Originally a leather-tanning business, the company expanded into the United States, opening a branch in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1911. It subsequently became a more broadly based chemical and plastics company.〔 John Haas grew up in Haverford, Pennsylvania with his parents and his older brother F. Otto Haas.〔 He attended the Quaker Haverford Friends School, and then Episcopal Academy, from which he graduated in 1936.〔〔 Mr. Haas attended Amherst College, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1940, majoring in chemistry. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a master's degree in chemical engineering in 1942.〔
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