Date in year · 1937 · The 1930s
On February 16, 1937, wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. Antonio Carluccio, Joseph Estrada, Yoshiro Mori would arrive in the same year.
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1937
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Featured · February 16, 1937
Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.
Around 1937
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.
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American chemist and inventor (1896–1937)
Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.
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