Correspondence with Wallace Hume Carothers, 1926-1936.

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Correspondence with Wallace Hume Carothers, 1926-1936.

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The John Johnson-Wallace Carothers correspondence is both professional and personal in nature. Letters describe Carothers' early months working for the Du Pont Company and the ease with which he made the transition from academic life at Harvard University to the business world. In 1934-1935, Carothers described the research that he was doing in polymer chemistry which would eventually lead to the development of nylon. In many of these letters, Carothers and Johnson speculated about the role of the catalyst.

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Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937

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Wallace H. Carothers was born in Burlington Iowa on April 27, 1896. He attended undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Illinois, Urbana where he studied under Roger Adam. In 1928 after several years teaching undergraduates at Harvard he accepted a position in Du Pont's newly formed fundamental research program. By 1930 he and his group, which included Julian W. Hill and the future Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Paul Flory, discovered both Nylon and Neoprene. Carothers was plagued ...

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Johnson, John R.

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