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Wallace Carothers

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Noun1.Wallace Carothers - United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)


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Chemical manufacturing giants ICI and DuPont both lay claim to its creation, although it was British chemists John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson that patented polyethylene terephthalate in 1941, after advancing the early research of Wallace Carothers.
46 Wallace Carothers headed a 1930s research teamthat gave the world which fibres?
LAST BREATH 1937: Wallace Carothers, US chemist who invented nylon.
 
 
 
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