Polymer Pioneers: A Popular History of the Science and Technology of Large MoleculesAccompanied by an introductory overview of the history of polymer science, this book contains biographical sketches of 12 pioneers, from Marcellin Berthollet and John Wesley Hyatt to Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta. It also includes time charts before each chapter that summarise significant events. |
Contents
| 3 | |
Prehistory | 23 |
Pierre Eugene Marcelin Berthelot | 26 |
John Wesley Hyatt | 29 |
Rubber and Resins | 32 |
Leo Hendrik Baekeland | 35 |
Samuel Shrowder Pickles | 38 |
Synthetic Polymer Chemistry | 51 |
Wallace Hume Carothers | 54 |
Carl Shipp Speed Marvel | 57 |
Physical Chemistry of Polymers | 61 |
Werner Kuhn | 63 |
Paul John Flory | 66 |
Stereoregular Polymers | 71 |
Karl Ziegler | 74 |
The Macromolecular Debate | 41 |
Hermann Staudinger | 44 |
Herman Francis Mark | 47 |
Giulio Natta | 77 |
Bibliography | 81 |
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