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Wallace Carothers

1896–1937 · United States · Born in the 1800s

Led the DuPont team that invented nylon and neoprene and developed the theory of condensation polymers.

Fields

Polymer chemistry

Related topics

Addition and condensation polymerization

How chain-growth addition and step-growth condensation build polymers, why their molecular-weight development differs, and how monomer structure determines repeat units and by-products.

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Karl Ziegler (1898)Giulio Natta (1903)Paul J. Flory (1910)Hermann Staudinger (1881)Stephanie Kwolek (1923)Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927)