Papers of Wallace H. Carothers, 1924-1978.

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Papers of Wallace H. Carothers, 1924-1978.

This collection is not a unified compendium, rather it is an assemblage of surviving materials.

3 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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Carothers, Helen.

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Flory, Paul John

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American chemist. From the description of Paul J. Flory papers, 1975-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872172 Flory was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1974. Born in Illinois in 1910, he attended Manchester college and did graduate work at Ohio State University, earning his Ph. D in 1934. Flory went to work for the Dupont Company in the Central Research Department where he worked for Dr. Wallace Carothers. Following the death of Carothers in 1937, Flory joined...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station.

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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 ...

Hill, Julian W. (Julian Werner), 1904-1996

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