Wallace Hume Carothers

JAKARTA - Wallace Hume Carothers adalah seorang penemu dan ahli kimia asal Amerika Serikat, yang menginovasikan nilon dan neoprene. Ia merupakan ilmuwan dan penemu yang cerdas dengan karir luar biasa, serta memiliki lebih dari 50 hak cipta. Wallace H. Carothers lahir di Iowa pada 27 April ...

Let's reminisce, shall we? The city of Seaford, in western Sussex County, is known as the “Nylon Capital of the World,” because this is where one of the world's most famous fibers was first produced on a large scale. Invented in 1937 by DuPont chemist Wallace Hume Carothers, nylon was first introduced to ...

He offers fascinating sketches of lesser-known figures, such as Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor of nylon, and William H. Murray, a charismatic and controversial Boston minister whose 1869 bestseller Adventures in Wilderness was one of the first to advocate the healing power of nature. Murray “promised ...

Harvard University's research genius, Wallace Hume Carothers, is lured away to head the polymer research program at the Experimental Station. 1930. In the midst of the Great Depression, the company lays off 4,000 of its 35,000 employees as net income drops 30 percent. DuPont forms a joint venture ...

He was working in the DuPont research laboratory, led by the rigorous organic chemist Wallace Hume Carothers, who had taken on the challenging 'synthetic fibre race'. At the time, synthetic polymers were a mysterious conception; what they were made of and how they related to simpler compounds was ...

Environment & Science. Marc Haefele: Wallace Hume Carothers and the tragic backstory of the inventor of nylon ... At the moment of his triumph, at age 41, Wallace Hume Carothers succumbed to the mental diseases that had dogged him since his 20s --severe depression and alcoholism. In 1937, he killed ...

That's because Wallace Hume Carothers, the chemist who invented the synthetic material in 1935, worked for the DuPont company, which is headquartered there. In fact, the first test sale to DuPont employees' wives took place at the company's experimental station, just up the street from my childhood ...