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Aylsworth, Jonas
Bachner, Edward F.
Bacon, Clare E.
Baekeland, Leo
Baer, Eric
Bailey, James
Beall, Glenn
Beetle, Carl
Belcher, Sameul L.
Bemis, Peter F.
Bishop, Richard
Black, Otis
Blount, Clint
Boeschenstein, H
Borro, Edward
Boyer, Raymond
Bradbury, Williamry
Bradt, Rexford H.
Breskin, Charles
Brown, Gordon
Burroughs, Charles
Bushman, Edwin F.
Carothers, Wallace
Chapman, Frank
Chum, Pak-Wing S.
Cleworth, C. W.
Condit, Charles
Conley, Fred
Cruse, William
Deanin, Rudolph
DeBell, John
Delmonte, John
Doak, Kenneth
Dow, Willard
Doyle, Bernard
Dreyfus, Camille
Dubois, J. Harry
Eastman, George
Ehlers, Russell
Ellis, Carleton
Erikson, Erik
Estabrook, Jr., F. R.
Flory, Paul
Forger, Robert
Foster, Joseph
Fox, Daniel W.
Freitag, Dieter
Gatto, Charles
Gigliotti, M. F. X.
Goggin, William
Goldsworthy, W.B.
Gore, Wilbert
Grebe, John
Griffith, Henry E.
Griffith, Palmer
Gross, Sid
Grote, Sr., Walter
Haine, Walter
Hanford, William
Harding, Ralph
Heckman, Jerome
Hemming, Emile
Hendrie, George
Hobson, Edwin L.
Hoffer, Robert
Hohl, John
Holz, Harold A.
Huidekoper, P.
Humphrey, G. P.
Hunkar, Denes B.
Huntsman, Jon
Hyatt, John Wesley
Hyde, J.F.
Jennings, Garland
Karol, Frederick J.
Kavanaugh, Lionel
Keville, John
Kleiderer, C. W.
Kline, Gordon M.
Koenig, Jack
Kretzschmar, J. R.
Kruder, George A.
Kwolek, S. L.
Land, Edwin H.
Lankton, Gordon
Lester, William M.
Lubin, George
Maccaferri, Mario
MacDiarmid, Alan G.
Maddock, Bruce H.
Mark, Herman F.
Marra, Frank S.
Marshall, Abraham
Martinelli, Guy A.
Marvel, Carl Shipp
McGrath, James E.
Mehnert, Gottfried
Menges, Georg
Morrison, Robert S.
Morton, Jr., Thomas
Muehlstein, Herman
Nalle, Jr., George S.
Natta, Giulio
Nissel, Frank R.
Ott, Emile
Palmer, Spencer E.
Parkes, Alexander
Peters, Don. L.
Pitcher, Arnold E.
Plueddemann, E.
Plunkett, Roy J.
Porter, Roger S.
Quarnstrom, Ivar
Rahm, Louis Frank
Reib, John C.
Reinhart, Frank W.
Richardson, Henry
Robertson, Harold
Rosato, Dominick V.
Rowan, Sr., Edward
Rubens, L.C. "Bud"
Rubin, Irvin I.
Schad, Robert
Schnell, Hermann
Schwab, Fred E.
Scribner, George K.
Seabury, R. W.
Semon, Waldo L.
Seymour, R. B.
Shaw, Frank H.
Shaw, Louis E.
Sherwood, Miller G.
Slater, John G.
Spaak, Albert
Staudinger, H
Stein, Richard S.
Stott, Lewis L.
Stoughton, T. S.
Swallow, John
Swedlow, David A.
Thomas, Islyn
Tupper, Earl S.
Von Holdt, John
Welch, John F.
Whitlock, Carl
Willert, William H.
Wyeth, N. C.
Zimmerman, A. S.
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Recent Articles
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A Personal Biography of Carl H. Whitlock
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 06/26/2008
Type: Summary
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The following brief biography of Carl Whitlock was generated mostly from my memory with a few jogs from existing materials. I welcome any additions or corrections any interested party wishes to make. The recollections from Carl Whitlock’s earliest career in the Plastics Industry are from my childhood and take the form of snapshots remembered. With that caveat, I’ll proceed. H. M. Whitlock
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John (Jack) Keville Obituary
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 06/26/2008
Type: Summary
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Jack Keville, a member of the Plastics Hall of Fame and a driving force behind the founding of the National Plastics Center (NPC) and Museum in his hometown of Leominster, Mass., died last week at the age of 96.
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Dominick V. “Nick” Rosato Obituary
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 06/26/2008
Type: Summary
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Dominick V. “Nick” Rosato died peacefully Monday morning at his home in Chatham, MA, with his beloved wife of 60 years Virginia and his beloved daughter Ginny at his side. Nick Rosato has served the plastics industry for 60 years as an industry-wide technical writer, engineer, and innovator...
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Denes B. Hunkar - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 06/24/2008
Type: Summary
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Known extensively in the plastics industry for his innovations in process control, particularly in blow molding and injection molding, Denes Hunkar started Hunkar Instrument Development Laboratories in Cincinnati in 1962.
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Hermann Staudinger - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 05/04/2008
Type: Summary
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Prof. Dr. Hermann Staudinger (1881 – 1965) was a world renowned German chemist who won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for demonstrating that polymers are long-chain molecules.
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Alan G. MacDiarmid - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 05/04/2008
Type: Summary
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Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers or plastics that conduct electricity like metals, more commonly known as "synthetic" metals.
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Hermann Schnell - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 05/04/2008
Type: Summary
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Dr. Schnell has been feted with several honors including the Hermann Staudinger Gedächtnismedaille award and the Swinburne Award. He invented the polycarbonate Makrolon® in 1953. The unique properties of this high-tech material are its light weight and resistance to breaking and splintering.
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John Swallow - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 05/04/2008
Type: Summary
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Dr. Swallow was named Chairman of ICI Plastics Division in 1951, a position he held until his retirement in 1963. During his tenure as Chairman, he guided the Plastics Division through a difficult period of adolescence with commercial development of existing products and the introduction of new polymers, including polyester film, butadiene copolymers, vinyl copolymers, polypropylene resin and film, and acetal copolymers.
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Pak-Wing Steve Chum - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 06/19/2006
Type: Summary
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During a 26-year career with Dow Chemical Co., which culminated with being named Chief Scientist of Dow Performance Plastics & Chemicals, Dr. Pak-Wing Steve Chum has become a world-recognized expert in the material science of semicrystalline polymers.
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Dieter Freitag - Hall of Fame Entry
Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 06/19/2006
Type: Summary
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Research and development efforts in polycarbonate materials resulted in more than 430 patents (179 are granted in the United States) for Dr. Dieter Freitag.
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