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==Notable employees==
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* [[Bettye Washington Greene|Bettye Washington Greene,]] was one of the first African American women to earn her PhD in chemistry and she was the first [[African American]] female Ph.D. chemist at Dow where she researched [[latex]] and [[Polymer|polymers]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Bettye Washington Greene |date=2024-02-25 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bettye_Washington_Greene&oldid=1210300620 |access-date=2024-06-18 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[George Becker (labor leader)|George Becker]], former vice president of the [[AFL–CIO]], and president of the [[United Steelworkers]]; worked at a Dow's aluminum rolling mill in [[Madison, Illinois]], where he was a shop steward.<ref>{{cite web |title=Former Steelworker President George Becker Dies |publisher=United Steelworkers |date=5 February 2007 |url=http://www.usw.ca/media/news/releases?id=0399 |access-date=24 December 2014 |archive-date=12 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312201056/http://www.usw.ca/media/news/releases?id=0399 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Buddy Burris]], professional football player with the [[Green Bay Packers]]; worked for Dow following his football career.<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul 'Buddy' Burris |publisher=Norman Transcript |url=http://www.normantranscript.com/obituaries/paul-buddy-burris/article_d70a4e04-261b-5d85-bcf8-2033f2a0e5a1.html?mode=jqm |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref>
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* [[Sven Trygve Falck]], Norwegian engineer, businessperson and politician; Dow engineer in Texas from 1967 to 1970.<ref>{{cite web |title=Falck, Sven Trygve ( 1943– ) |publisher=Stortinget |url=https://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=SVFA |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[Larry Garner]], Louisiana blues musician; worked at Dow's [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] facility.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dahl |first=Bill |title=Artist Biography |publisher=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/larry-garner-mn0000128186/biography |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[Bettye Washington Greene]], first African-American female chemist employed at Dow; began working in 1965 at the E.C. Britton Lab.<ref>{{cite web |title=Othmeralia |publisher=Othmeralia |date=1 March 2014 |url=http://othmeralia.tumblr.com/post/78212258500/from-african-american-history-to-womens-history}}</ref>
* [[Alexandre Hohagen]], vice president for Latin America and US Hispanics at [[Facebook]]; former public relations manager for Dow Chemical Brazil.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexandre Hohagen – Regional Managing Director for Latin America |url=https://sites.google.com/site/gps20brazil/executive-bios-1 |access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[Zdravko Ježić]], Olympic silver medalist; worked for Dow in Texas on the development of urethane and oxide polymers.<ref>{{cite web |last=Trinajsti |first=Nenad |title=Zdravko Pusko Ježić |publisher=Croatica Chemica Acta |date=January 2005 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27188521}}</ref>