Wallace Hume Carothers
1896-1937
American Chemist
Wallace Carothers quite literally transformed the texture of human life. His assignment as director of a research team for the DuPont Company marked t...
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The American chemist Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937) was an experimentalist in the organic and industrial branches. His researches into polymerization led to the invention of nylon, the first truly...
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By the time he was forty, Wallace Hume Carothers had made significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry. Heading a research team at the Du Pont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, Carothers...
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Wallace H. Carothers was born on April 27, 1896 in Berlington, Iowa. He graduated from Terkin College with a bachelor of science in 1920, and earned his Ph.D. in 1924 from the University of Illinois. ...
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Wallace Hume Carothers
Wallace Hume Carothers
Wallace Hume Carothers
Wallace Hume Carothers