Charles Goodyear

Charles Goodyear

male, deceased (1860)
inventor, Charles Spencer Goodyear, Polymerpersonality, vulcanized rubber, American, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Charles Spencer Goodyear (December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and...
Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta

male, deceased (1979)
from the Province of Imperia, Pavia University, from Liguria, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, bergamo, polymer…Polymerpersonality
Giulio Natta (Imperia, 26 February 1903 - Bergamo, 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemist, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler...
Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler

male, deceased (1973)
Mülheim/Ruhr, Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung, Aachen University of Technology, Ziegler-Natta catalyst, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, kassel…polymer, Polymerpersonality
Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on high polymers. Ziegler was...
Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger

male, deceased (1965)
ketenes, macromolecules, Polymers, Nobel Laureate, Polymerpersonality, Chemist
German chemist Hermann Staudinger (March 23, 1881 - September 8, 1965) demonstrated the existence of macromolecules which he characterized as...
William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin

male, deceased (1907)
Tripos Wranglers, buried at Westminster Abbey, thermodynamics, Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh…Polymerpersonality
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and...
J. Paul Hogan

J. Paul Hogan

male, 90 years old
HDPE, Marlex, Perkin Medal, John Paul Hogan, Malex, Perkin Medal Award…Polymerpersonality
John Paul Hogan (born August 7, 1919) is an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and...

Robert Banks

male, deceased (1989)
Marlex, Robert L. Banks, high-density polyethylene, Perkin Medal, American, plastic…Polymerpersonality
Robert L. Banks was an American chemist. He was born and grew up in Piedmont, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State University, and...
Dieter Weichert

Dieter Weichert

male, 61 years old
physicist, viscoelasticity, Maxwell-Weichert model, solid mechanics, rwth aachen, polymer…Polymerpersonality
Dieter Weichert (born 1948) is a German mechanical engineer specialising in solid mechanics and polymer rheology. Since 1995 he is the Director of...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…Polymerpersonality
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
John Wesley Hyatt

John Wesley Hyatt

male, deceased (1920)
sewing machine, Perkin Medal, roller bearing, National Inventors Hall of Fame, American, Cue sports non-player personality…Polymerpersonality, Billiards non-player personality
John Wesley Hyatt (November 28, 1837 - 10 May, 1920) was a U.S. inventor. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid. Hyatt was...