Wallace Carothers
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Wallace Carothers
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Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. Carothers was an organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught at several universities before he was hired by Du
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Early 20th-century American chemist and inventor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers
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2003-04-26T13:23:11Z
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2024-08-30T22:15:38Z
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