If you are reading this on a phone, tablet or laptop, you should probably thank Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham. In the 1970s Dr. Whittingham was working at ExxonMobil’s Clinton, New Jersey, corporate research lab...
Paris, 1900, the city was abuzz with energy. At the Exposition Universelle that summer, fairgoers were captivated by the Ferris wheel, awed by the Palais de l’Ectricité and amused by Thomas Edison’s...
Elijah McCoy had all the chances to live a life unnoticed. Born in Ontario, Canada, in 1844 to parents who had escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad, McCoy grew up with 11 siblings on a 160-acre farm. The...
It might be easy to dismiss George P. Mitchell’s story as just another rags-to-riches tale from the oil patch. After all, the first six decades of the Texan’s life read like a classic American success story....
When Dr. Peter Vail suggested in the early 1960s that seismic imaging could be used to determine the age of the earth’s layers in order to more accurately determine where oil and gas deposits could be, his peers...
Synthetic rubber, lithium-ion battery components, seismic imaging technology… these are just some inventions from ExxonMobil. Read how these pioneers have opened doors to further learning and exploration in...