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Wallace Hume Carothers

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


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Before that, a girl's best friend was nylon - invented in 1934 by American chemist Wallace Hume Carothers as a result of an experiment with coal, hydrogen, air and petroleum.
1963 Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937), American scientist, whose brilliant fundamental researches on polymers and polymerization had a profound influence on subsequent development of this field; a pioneer whose own efforts resulted in the discovery of Neoprene, the first commercially produced synthetic rubber, and of nylon, the first completely synthetic fiber.
 
 
 
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