A genius in polymer technology Available to Purchase

Just 50 years ago an organic chemist began fruitful researches on polymers when he was invited to direct this project by Du Pont de Nemours at Wilmington. The chemist was Wallace Hume Carothers, of Scottish ancestry who had migrated to Pennsylvania. Before that historic move to Wilmington the young chemist had done much research and some lecturing, with papers published on phenyl isocyanate, on diazo‐compounds, and on catalytic hydrogenation of aldehydes in which he outlined early examples of poisoning of platinum catalysts. But following two years further work after moving to Harvard, there came the début of Carothers as father of polymer science, a title he shared with Hermann Staudinger.