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Wallace Carothers

1896 - 1937

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Wallace Hume Carothers (; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. Carothers was an organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught at several universities before he was hired by DuPont to work on fundamental research. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wallace Carothers is the 201st most popular chemist (up from 210th in 2019), the 1,069th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,310th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Chemist.

Wallace Carothers is most famous for inventing nylon.

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Among chemists, Wallace Carothers ranks 201 out of 602. Before him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Henry Taube, Paul L. Modrich, Clara Immerwahr, Arthur Kornberg, and Herbert C. Brown. After him are Donald J. Cram, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Karl Barry Sharpless.

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Among people born in 1896, Wallace Carothers ranks 38. Before him are Ernst Udet, Erich Koch, Sandro Pertini, Léon Theremin, Oswald Mosley, and Célestin Freinet. After him are Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, John Dos Passos, Italo Balbo, Nobusuke Kishi, and Nikolay Semyonov. Among people deceased in 1937, Wallace Carothers ranks 26. Before him are Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Andrew Mellon, Karol Szymanowski, Jean Harlow, and Charles-Marie Widor. After him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Rudolf Otto, Keke Geladze, Frank B. Kellogg, Ramsay MacDonald, and Albert Roussel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Carothers ranks 1,069 out of 20,380. Before him are H. L. Mencken (1880), Rick Rubin (1963), Stanley Tucci (1960), Drew Weissman (1959), Ali MacGraw (1939), and Alan Arkin (1934). After him are Victor Fleming (1889), John Browning (1855), Kamehameha I (1758), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Suzi Quatro (1950), and Benjamin Thompson (1753).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wallace Carothers ranks 48. Before him are Robert Curl (1933), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), Paul L. Modrich (1946), and Arthur Kornberg (1918). After him are Donald J. Cram (1919), Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Paul Lauterbur (1929), and Stanley Miller (1930).

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