Letters to Francis Gelvin Spencer, 1929-1933 [photocopies].

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Letters to Francis Gelvin Spencer, 1929-1933 [photocopies].

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This collection of Carothers' papers consists of fourteen letters written to his former college girlfriend from Missouri, Frances Gelvin Spencer. The letters were copied from the originals in the possession of Mrs. Spencer before her death. They are almost entirely personal in nature, but one describes his work in the following terms, "We have been enormously lucky in our research so far. We have not only a synthetic rubber, but something theoretically more original -- a synthetic silk. If these two things can be nailed down, that will be enough for one lifetime."

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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 ...

Spencer, Frances G. (Frances Gelvin), 1898-1992.

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