Polymer personalities Polymer personalities Alexander Parkes ( December 29 1813 - June 29 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He developed the first form of celluloid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Parkes"
Charles Goodyear ( December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) is popularly renowned as the inventor of vulcanized rubber. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Goodyear"
Eric Fawcett ( August 23, 1927 – September 2, 2000), was a professor of physics at the University of Toronto for 23 years. He also co-founded Science for Peace. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eric Fawcett"
Hermann Staudinger ( March 23, 1881 in Worms- 8 September, 1965 in Freiburg) was a German chemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953, for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermann Staudinger"
Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants ( ; ( Shusha, currently Nagorno-Karabakh) - December 21 1990 ( Moscow), was a Soviet chemist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ivan Knunyants"
James Clerk Maxwell ( June 13, 1831– November 5, 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell developed a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. He was the last representative of a younger branch of the well-known Scottish family of Clerk of Penicuik. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Clerk Maxwell"
Sir James Robert Dickson KCMG ( 30 November 1832 - 10 January 1901) was an Australian politician and businessman, the 13th Premier of Queensland and a member of the first federal ministry. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Dickson"
John Paul Hogan (born August 7, 1919) is an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene. ...more on Wikipedia about "John P. Hogan"
: For entries on other people named John Wesley, see John Wesley (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "John Wesley Hyatt"
Leo Hendrik Baekeland ( November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper ( 1893) and Bakelite ( 1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leo Baekeland"
Manfred Hermann Wagner (born 1948) is the author of Wagner model and the Molecular Stress Function theory for polymer rheology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manfred Wagner"
Pierre Carreau is a modern rheologist, the author of the model of Carreau fluid. He is currently teaching at École Polytechnique, Montréal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Carreau"
Robert Banks was born on November 24, 1921 in Piedmont. He was a fellow research chemist of J. Paul Hogan. They began working together in 1946, and in 1951 invented "crystalline polypropylene" and "high-density polyethylene" (HDPE). These plastics were initially known by the name Malex. He joined the Phillips Petroleum company in 1946 and worked there until he retired in 1985. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Banks (chemist)"
Ronald S. Rivlin (b. 1915) is an American physicist and mathematician. One of creators of the modern theory of large elastic deformations, including theory of Neo-Hookean solids and Mooney-Rivlin solids. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ronald Rivlin"
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Roy J. Plunkett ( June 26, 1910 - May 12, 1994) was the chemist who accidentally invented Teflon in 1938. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roy J. Plunkett"
Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev ( July 25, 1874 – May 1, 1934) was a Russian chemist and the inventor of synthetic rubber. == Biography == Lebedev was born in Lublin and went to school in Warsaw. In 1900, he graduated from St. Petersburg University and found work at the Petersburg Margarine Factory. Starting in 1902, Lebedev moved from university to university in Russia, starting at the Saint-Petersburg Institute for Railroad Engineering. In 1904, he returned to St. Petersburg University to work under Aleksey Favorsky. In 1915, he was appointed Professor at the Women's Pedagogical Institute in St. Petersburg. After 1916, he was a Professor of Saint Petersburg Academy for Military Medicine. In 1925, he became the leader of the Oil Laboratory (after 1928, the Laboratory of Synthetic Resins) at St. Petersburg University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev"
Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers ( April 27, 1896 - April 29, 1937) was the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont. He was born in Burlington, Iowa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wallace Carothers"
The Right Honourable William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, GCVO, OM, PC, PRS ( 26 June 1824– 17 December 1907) was a Scottish- Irish mathematical physicist and engineer, an outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century. He did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He is also credited for the discovery of the atom. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin"
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