After his family's drug corporation was sold to Johnson & Johnson he became a philanthropist. Robert L. McNeil Jr. a Philadelphia chemist who developed a little-known pain reliever called paracet ...
After his family's drug corporation was sold to Johnson & Johnson he became a philanthropist. Robert L. McNeil Jr. a Philadelphia chemist who developed a little-known pain reliever called paracetamol into the global blockbuster Tylenol creating a fortune that he freely distributed to charities universities and museums died May 20 of a heart ailment at his home in Wyndmoor Pa. He was 94.