Community Impact
An essential part of our mission is to connect with people and drive positive change around the world through community outreach.
Around the world, the people at DuPont bring diverse backgrounds, expertise, and a drive to create essential innovations that make lives better.
We’re scientists, engineers, business managers and marketers. Creators, collaborators, and award winners. And together, we’re using our combined skills to solve the world’s biggest challenges and bring about positive change, right now.
Right now, from senior executives to early careers, we’re working to improve representation.
Every day, in approximately 50 countries around the world, more than 23,000 people come to work at DuPont.
Wherever they are, whatever their role, they each bring a unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives that help us succeed as a company. And they make DuPont a vibrant and inspiring place.
The 2024 Lavoisier Medalist & Pedersen Awardees
The Lavoisier Medal for Lifetime Technical Achievement recognizes scientists and engineers who have demonstrated a career of creative technical contributions with significant business impact. It’s named in honor of the 18th century French chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, considered the father of modern chemistry.
The Pedersen Award is chosen by a select team of Laureates, a group of DuPont’s highest technical professionals. This year’s recipients’ deep technical knowledge, skill, achievements, and commitment in their respective areas have resulted in important new products and other advances for DuPont customers. The Pedersen Award is named in honor of DuPont’s Nobel Laureate, Charles J. Pedersen, who received the 1987 Nobel Prize for his discovery of a novel class of chemical compounds called macrocyclic polyethers, which he dubbed the “crown” ethers because of their molecular shape.