Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar

Posted by on Dec 1, 2019 in | Comments Off on Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar Born into a Polish American family in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014) received a bachelor’s degree in 1946 from the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Although she intended to pursue a career in medicine, she took a job with DuPont as a chemist to earn money to attend medical school. She became so involved in her...
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