There have been various scientists who have had their say as to how plastics are used in the present day. Among many other uses, polyester film is used in window pane manufacture and packaging food. Through brilliant contributions and extensive research; these scientists made all this reality.
Wallace Carothers is viewed as the 'main man' in regard to the science of man-made polymers; he also invented nylon and neoprene. Wallace was an intelligent chemist, scholar inventor as well as a troubled man. He undoubtedly achieved a lot including being a holder of tens of patents; despite all this, he committed suicide.
Carothers's background
Born in Iowa, Wallace Carothers first went into accounting before delving into science which he pursued while he lectured accounting at Missouri's Tarkio College. While still a university student, he was chosen to head the chemistry department. His talents as chemist were undeniable but this appointment was mostly because of World War One which had greatly reduced the number of personnel available. It is from the University of Illinois that Carothers obtained his Master's and Doctorate degrees which was followed by a stint in Harvard as a professor from 1924. While at Harvard, he started researching on polymer chemical structures.
His time at DuPont
In 1928, DuPont chemical company opened a lab with the aim of researching on artificial material development. Doing so meant that they had decided to take the path of basic research, something that was not too common back then.
Wallace Carothers quit his position at Harvard and Joined DuPont as lead researcher. Not much was known about polymer molecules when he joined DuPont. In conjunction with other scientists, Carothers started research on the acetylene chemical family; this was the very first research into same.
Neoprene and Nylon invention
Neoprene was the brainchild of Carothers and his team; its manufacture started in 1931 courtesy of DuPont. The next area of interest was a certain synthetic fibre that was viewed as a possible silk replacement. Most of America's silk came from Japan but the relationship between the two countries was deteriorating. By 1934, success was in sight; combining diamine, adipic acid, hexamethylene and amine through polymerization causes the condensation reaction yielding synthetic fibre. In this reaction molecules are adjoined to each other leading to the production of water.
His death
Carothers married co-worker Helen Sweetman in 1936. When Helen was pregnant, Wallace Carothers took his own life; he never saw his daughter. The reason for this tragic turn of events was probably because Wallace suffered from severe manic depression which could have been compounded by the untimely demise of her sister in 1937.
Carothers's colleague at DuPont, Julian Hill is known to have said that he saw Carothers with what was later found to be cyanide. In addition he claimed that Carothers knew all the notable chemists who had ended their own lives. In 1937 Wallace Hume Carothers poisoned himself with cyanide becoming one of these chemists.
Wallace Carothers is viewed as the 'main man' in regard to the science of man-made polymers; he also invented nylon and neoprene. Wallace was an intelligent chemist, scholar inventor as well as a troubled man. He undoubtedly achieved a lot including being a holder of tens of patents; despite all this, he committed suicide.
Carothers's background
Born in Iowa, Wallace Carothers first went into accounting before delving into science which he pursued while he lectured accounting at Missouri's Tarkio College. While still a university student, he was chosen to head the chemistry department. His talents as chemist were undeniable but this appointment was mostly because of World War One which had greatly reduced the number of personnel available. It is from the University of Illinois that Carothers obtained his Master's and Doctorate degrees which was followed by a stint in Harvard as a professor from 1924. While at Harvard, he started researching on polymer chemical structures.
His time at DuPont
In 1928, DuPont chemical company opened a lab with the aim of researching on artificial material development. Doing so meant that they had decided to take the path of basic research, something that was not too common back then.
Wallace Carothers quit his position at Harvard and Joined DuPont as lead researcher. Not much was known about polymer molecules when he joined DuPont. In conjunction with other scientists, Carothers started research on the acetylene chemical family; this was the very first research into same.
Neoprene and Nylon invention
Neoprene was the brainchild of Carothers and his team; its manufacture started in 1931 courtesy of DuPont. The next area of interest was a certain synthetic fibre that was viewed as a possible silk replacement. Most of America's silk came from Japan but the relationship between the two countries was deteriorating. By 1934, success was in sight; combining diamine, adipic acid, hexamethylene and amine through polymerization causes the condensation reaction yielding synthetic fibre. In this reaction molecules are adjoined to each other leading to the production of water.
His death
Carothers married co-worker Helen Sweetman in 1936. When Helen was pregnant, Wallace Carothers took his own life; he never saw his daughter. The reason for this tragic turn of events was probably because Wallace suffered from severe manic depression which could have been compounded by the untimely demise of her sister in 1937.
Carothers's colleague at DuPont, Julian Hill is known to have said that he saw Carothers with what was later found to be cyanide. In addition he claimed that Carothers knew all the notable chemists who had ended their own lives. In 1937 Wallace Hume Carothers poisoned himself with cyanide becoming one of these chemists.
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