Wallace Hume Carothers (/kəˈrʌðərz/; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont...

In step-growth polymerization, the Carothers equation (or Carothers' equation) gives the degree of polymerization, Xn, for a given fractional monomer conversion...

February 28, 1935, by Wallace Hume Carothers at DuPont's research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station. In response to Carothers' work, Paul Schlack...

Carothers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. J. Carothers (1931–2007), American playwright and television writer, worked with Walt...

filmmaker and artist Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), inventor of nylon Wallace Chung (born 1974), Hong Kong singer and actor Wallace E. Conkling (1896–1979)...

Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon, Hermes 1996; "Du Pont Strikes Pay Dirt at Purity Hall: Groundbreaking studies by Wallace Carothers paved the...

polymer chemistry Hermann Staudinger, father of polymer chemistry Wallace Carothers, inventor of nylon. Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar. The chemist...

first nylon, nylon 66, was synthesized on February 28, 1935, by Wallace Hume Carothers at DuPont's research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station...

of John Baldwin Gourley, Zach Carothers, Kyle O'Quin, Jason Sechrist, Eric Howk and Zoe Manville. Gourley and Carothers met and began playing music together...

dichloride. After DuPont purchased the patent rights from the university, Wallace Carothers of DuPont took over commercial development of Nieuwland's discovery...

continued its emphasis on materials science, hiring Wallace Carothers to work on polymers in 1928. Carothers invented neoprene, a synthetic rubber; the first...

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using different methods. This early work was pursued in the 1930s by Wallace Carothers (E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.), with a more systematic study of...

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conceived the idea of Nylon 11, which was suggested in the works of Wallace Carothers. Thann & Mulhouse had already been involved in processing castor oil...

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phenol and formaldehyde. The pioneer of synthetic polymer science, Wallace Carothers, developed a new means of making polyesters through step-growth polymerization...

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Stalked New York (1950) as Sid Bennet The Du Pont Story (1950) as Dr. Wallace Carothers For Heaven's Sake (1950) as Doctor (uncredited) The Great Missouri...

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by polycondensation, and were not covered by patents obtained by Wallace Carothers on polyesters. Early work focused on the production of fibers and...

in 1930 written independently by the Russian Lebedev, the American Wallace Carothers and the German scientist Hermann Staudinger led in 1931 to one of...

drinking cyanide at a hospital in Buenos Aires. In 1937, polymer chemist Wallace Carothers died by suicide by cyanide. In the 1943 Operation Gunnerside to destroy...

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in Kolkata, consumed cyanide in 1930 immediately after the attack. Wallace Carothers, polymer chemist who died by suicide in 1937 after battling depression...

by Julius Nieuwland (see also: E.K. Bolton, Wallace Carothers) 1931 – Nylon developed by Wallace Carothers 1935 – Langmuir–Blodgett film coating of glass...

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1962-05-01  Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles, 7th edition, pg. 474 "Wallace Carothers and the Development of Nylon - Landmark". American Chemical Society...

the world's first plastic – Bakelite – had been invented in 1907, Wallace Carothers successfully drew off a fibre from the interface of two liquids: hexane-1...