1935Wallace Carothers leads team to invent nylon

Wallace Carothers leads a team of chemists at DuPont who inv...
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1935

🧶 Wallace Carothers leads team to invent nylon

Wallace Carothers leads a team of chemists at DuPont who invent nylon, one of the most commercially successful synthetic polymers in history.
Wallace Carothers leads team to invent nylon (1935)
Polymer ChemistryWallace CarothersDuPontSynthetic PolymersMaterials ScienceChemical Engineering20th CenturyIndustrial Chemistry
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Wallace Carothers leads team to invent nylon (1935)