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Stephanie Louise Kwolek (/ ˈ k w oʊ l ɛ k /; July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist best known for inventing Kevlar (poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide). Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years.
Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), American chemist, inventor of Kevlar; Lidija Liepiņa (1891–1985), Latvian chemist, one of the first Soviet doctorates in chemistry; Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), British crystallographer [4]: 71–74 Bodil Jerslev Lund (1919–2005), Danish chemist and pharmacist; Grace Medes (1886–1967), American biochemist
Deepika Kurup (born 1998), solar-powered water purification; Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), synthetic fibres; Angela Kornas (born 1977), bra inserts; L Hedy Lamarr, Inventor, 1939. Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), radio guidance systems; Esther Lederberg (1922–2006), microbial genetics; Cricket Lee (born 1953), clothing fitting
Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar Ignacy Łukasiewicz built world's first oil refinery. Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski, Polish mathematician–cryptologists, broke German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II. Sharing their techniques with the British, they enabled British reading of Enigma messages.
Kwolek is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bartosz Kwolek (born 1997), Polish volleyball player; Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), American chemist; Charles Peter Kwolek III (born 1990), Polish DIII ATHLETE AKA KING RACKS
Stephanie Kwolek: 1923 Kevlar [121] 1995 Waldo Semon: 1898 Polyvinyl chloride [122] 1995 William Stanley Jr. 1858 Induction coil [123] 1996 Leó Szilárd: 1898 Neutronic atomic reactor [124] 1996 Arthur Leonard Schawlow: 1921 Laser [125] 1996 Edmund Germer: 1901 Fluorescent lighting [126] 1996 Federico Faggin: 1941 Microprocessor, silicon-gate ...
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Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist of Polish origin, who in 1965 created the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness. The best-known member is Kevlar , a material used in protective vests as well as in boats, airplanes, ropes, cables, and much more—in total about 200 applications.