Wallace Carothers
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American organic chemist
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Wallace Carothers's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry Tarkio College
Why Is Wallace Carothers Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 DuPont to work on fundamental research.
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