John Rex Whinfield CBE (16 February 1901 in Sutton, Surrey, England – 6 July 1966 in Dorking, Surrey) was a British chemist. Together with James Tennant...
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by British chemists working at the Calico Printers' Association, John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson, in 1941. They produced and patented one...
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Aluminized Mylar balloons filled with helium PET was patented in 1941 by John Rex Whinfield, James Tennant Dickson and their employer the Calico Printers' Association...
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Novoselov. At the Calico Printers' Association in Manchester in 1941, John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson discovered polyethylene terephthalate, known...
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Radar and Microwave oven appliances. 1941: Polyester is invented by John Rex Whinfield and James Dickson. 1942: The V-2 rocket, the world's first long range...
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the ABE-process George M. Whitesides (born 1939), American chemist John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966), British chemist, discovered polyester fibres Otto Wichterle...
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by William Henry Perkin (1838–1907). 1941: Polyester invented by John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966). Pre-1565: The pencil invented in Seathwaite, Borrowdale...
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triexta polyester subclass in 2006; it was approved three years later. John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson (1941) "Improvements Relating to the Manufacture...
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childhood in the town John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene (polyester), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK John Virtue, artist...
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Polyethylene terephthalate goes back to an invention by the two Englishmen John Rex Whinfield (1902-1966) and James Tennant Dickson in 1941. The fact that UV-B...
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polyester fibre, polyethylene terephthalate (terylene), is patented by John Rex Whinfield, James T. Dickson and their employer the Calico Printers' Association...
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OBE, JP, Director, John B. Ward & Sons (Bradford) Ltd. Ronald Stephen Wells, Assistant Secretary, Home Office. John Rex Whinfield. For services in the...
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D. Ross; Little, Brown, and Company (1900), with the versions of E.H. Whinfield and Justin Huntly McCart; Bell (1901); Routledge (1904); Foulis (1905...
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to acknowledge notable service of the University the women's hostel, Whinfield Hall, was renamed Lupton Hall as a tribute to Dr. Elinor Lupton who was...
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Smith. For charitable and other community services. Colonial Office David Whinfield Barclay Baron. Director of Social Welfare, Hong Kong. Colin Boocock, MBE...
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