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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, 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.
This is a timeline of the development of plastics, comprising key discoveries and developments in the production of ... Kevlar developed at DuPont by Stephanie Kwolek:
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.
1966 – Stephanie Kwolek invented a fibre that would later become known as Kevlar; 1968 – Liquid crystal display developed by RCA; 1970 – Silica optical fibers grown by Corning Incorporated; 1980 – Duplex stainless steels developed which resist oxidation in chlorides
Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), U.S. – Kevlar; ... Timeline of historic inventions; List of African-American inventors and scientists; References
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
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological ... Kevlar is invented by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont.