Wallace Hume Carothers, American industrial chemist, c1927-1937. Artist: Unknown

Wallace Hume Carothers, American industrial chemist, c1927-1937. Artist: Unknown

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Wallace Hume Carothers, American industrial chemist, c1927-1937. Carothers (1896-1937), seen here in the laboratory, discovered nylon while working for the Dupont Company in 1927. Courtesy Du Pont Company.

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