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Wallace Carothers

1896 - 1937

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Wallace Hume Carothers (; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. Carothers was an organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for neoprene. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wallace Carothers has received more than 344,805 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Wallace Carothers is the 210th most popular chemist (down from 170th in 2019), the 1,310th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,189th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Chemist.

Wallace Carothers is most famous for inventing nylon.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Wallace Carothers ranks 210 out of 602. Before him are Nikolay Semyonov, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Kenichi Fukui, John Fenn, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, and Gerhard Herzberg. After him are Friedrich Sertürner, Satoshi Ōmura, Aziz Sancar, Antoni Grabowski, Alan J. Heeger, and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Wallace Carothers ranks 51. Before him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Gottlob Berger, Robert S. Mulliken, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikolay Semyonov, and André Masson. After him are Paulino Alcántara, Friedrich Hund, Léon Theremin, Kenji Miyazawa, Soghomon Tehlirian, and David Wechsler. Among people deceased in 1937, Wallace Carothers ranks 39. Before him are Jagadish Chandra Bose, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Albert Roussel, Edith Wharton, Pavel Florensky, and Ray Ewry. After him are Walter Simons, Bessie Smith, Yeghishe Charents, Chūya Nakahara, Louis Vierne, and Hugo Meisl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wallace Carothers ranks 1,310 out of 20,380. Before him are William Randolph Hearst (1863), Chris Columbus (1958), Owen Wilson (1968), Dionne Warwick (1940), Philip Johnson (1906), and Joseph Kosuth (1945). After him are Norman Mailer (1923), Angela Bassett (1958), Kathleen Turner (1954), Thomas Burke (1875), Gene Tierney (1920), and Sarah Jessica Parker (1965).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Wallace Carothers ranks 41. Before him are F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Robert Curl (1933), William Standish Knowles (1917), and John Fenn (1917). After him are Alan J. Heeger (1936), Donald J. Cram (1919), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), William Lipscomb (1919), and Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921).

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