Leo Baekeland

  • male, deceased (1944)
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. Born in Ghent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid. Upon completing his doctorate at the University of Ghent, he emigrated to America in 1889. Baekeland sold his patent for Velox photographic paper to the president of Kodak, … Wikipedia
Also known as:
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Born:
November 14, 1863
Died:
February 23, 1944
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  • "I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes"
  • "Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars"
  • "I also served on many government committees"
  • "I was a professor of physics and chemistry at a college in Belgium from 1885 to 1887"
  • "That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite"