William Gould Dow

William Gould Dow was an American businessman and industrialist who founded the Dow Chemical Company.

He developed an electrochemical process for extracting bromine from brine, which became the basis for Dow's first commercially successful product.

William Gould Dow was born on May 23, 1867, and he died on October 30, 1930.

The Dow Chemical Company is an American multinational chemical corporation that was founded as a subsidiary of Dow Chemical in 1897.

William Gould Dow's legacy is the establishment of the Dow Chemical Company, which went on to become one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world.