H. Staudinger (1953) polymer chain
formula.
H. Staudinger (1953) polymer chain
formula.
G. Natta & K. Ziegler (1963) coordination polymerization and
stereoregular polymers.
Natta's
biography
Ziegler's
biography
P. Flory (1974) Polymer thermodynamics,
kinetics, molecular weight distribution, solution theory.
Autobiographical
sketch
B. Merrifield (1984) Solid phase
polypeptide synthesis.
Prof.
Merrifield's group web site
His
autobiography (Amazon.com)
P. DeGennes (1993) Polymer solid state theory and liquid
crystals.
Prof. Degennes web site
Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and
Shirakawa (2000) electrically conducting and semiconducting polymers
Alan Heeger Nobel Prize Lecture
Interview
with Prof. Heeger regarding conducting polymers
Alan MacDiarmid - Short biography
One more scientist (Nobel Prize in 1921) whose contributions
concerning Brownian motion, viscosity of solutions, and light scattering are
essential to polymer science, even if he is best known for other, unrelated
work.
Can you identify this scientist? Answer
Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor of nylon
and neoprene.
DuPont -
Lavoisier Academy - Wallace Hume Carothers
A Science
Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Wallace Carothers
Wallace Hume
Carothers
Chemistry at The Idea
Channel
See also the book: Enough for One Lifetime, Biography of Wallace Hume
Carothers by Matt Hermes.
Herman Mark, X-ray crystal studies of polymers,
"Grandfather of Polymer Science."
Brief
career outline
Extensive
biography written by Prof. H. Morawetz for the NAS
On-line interview of Mark at
age 92 discussing polymer science
Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar.
Stephanie Louise
Kwolek
Tribute from DuPont,
her employer
Info from The
Inventors' Dimension, MIT
Info from the
Inventors' Museum
Info from
ChemHeritage
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