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6 Worcester Business Journal | June 7, 2021 | wbjournal.com wpi.edu/+businessgrad Offered on campus and online. Bold innovators win in tech. Learn how to embrace and manage risk. WPI's premier Business School is the place for you. Try 1 or 2 graduate courses in data science, user experience, marketing, and supply chain operations. Or explore our master's and certificate programs. Time for a promotion? Career switch? B R I E FS T H E T I C K E R 400 Businesses eligible to apply for a Massachusetts cannabis delivery license Source: Cannabis Control Commission 500 Source: Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District Seats planned for new, two-story restaurant, Mercantile Roof Top Bar & Restaurant, planned to open this summer in downtown Worcester New stores BJ's Wholesale Club of Westborough plans to add to its national repertoire 6 Source: BJ's Wholesale Club Amount two Central Massachusetts dentists paid for four buildings at the Leominster Commerce Center, located at 463-477 Lancaster St. $5.8M Waters Corp. founder dies at age 95 James Waters, a Framingham resident and the founder of the $19-billion Mil- ford laboratory equipment manufactur- er Waters Corp., died on May 17 at age 95, the MetroWest company announced on May 19. Waters was born in Nebraska, but moved at a young age to Framingham, where he would launch Waters Asso- ciates in 1958 in the basement of the Framingham Police Department. He and his five employees planned to build scientific instruments. e firm's big breakthrough came in 1965 when the company licensed a refractometer from Michigan multina- tional firm Dow Chemical for analyzing plastics, and the product Waters built from that led to a spike in sales. "While we mourn his passing, those who knew and worked alongside him remember Jim Waters as a brilliant and spirited scientist and businessman, who propelled the discipline of separations science with his revolutionary work in liquid chromatography," said Udit Batra, CEO and pres- ident of Waters Corp., in the press release. "Alongside his loving family, our company and industry celebrate the legacy of this special man who always sought to 'deliver benefit' and whose work continues to catalyze innovation across the life, materials and food sciences, and today contributes to the fast-evolving science on COVID-19 vaccine development and disease research." Waters' biggest triumph for the company came in 1972, when he solved a problem for Harvard professor Robert Woodward, who was working on the synthesis of vitamin B12 and who had already won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 for being the first to synthesize chlorophyll. At Woodward's request, Waters accompanied a team to Wood- ward's lab with a liquid chromatograph and solved the problem in the span of a few weeks. Water's tenure as president of Waters Continued from Page 5 James Waters Sources: Worcester County Registry of Deeds and NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs.