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.
2023 Lavoisier & Pedersen Awardees
The Lavoisier Medal for Lifetime Technical Achievement is the company’s highest science award and recognizes scientists and engineers who have demonstrated a career of creative technical contributions with significant business impact. The medal is named in honor of the 18th century French chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, who is considered the father of modern chemistry.
The Pedersen Award recipients are selected by the DuPont Fellows, a group of the highest technical professionals in the company. The recipients’ technical knowledge, skill and commitment in their respective areas have resulted in important new products for DuPont customers. The award is named in honor of 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.