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- catalog abstract "This is a story of invention and chemistry and the ineluctable fate of the inventor of nylon. Wallace Carothers was hired by DuPont in 1928 to lead a program called basic research. Carothers brought a passion to his work, and wanted to synthesize large molecules that would challenge Emil Fischer's largest molecule of 4200 molecular weight. In a burst of creativity in the spring of 1930, Carothers gave us our first truly synthetic rubber and fiber. The rubber quickly became neoprene; the fiber, in time, led to nylon. Carothers took an infant science called polymer chemistry, defined it, and guided it toward its present maturity. He gave us condensation polymerization. Hermes tells Carothers' story - his sudden, dramatic research successes and his relentless slide into depression, alcohol, and suicide - through Carothers' revealing letters to his professional colleagues (Roger Adams, C.S. Marvel, John R. Johnson) and his family and college classmates. At the end, Carothers' habit was to hide himself from his co-workers and friends. Hermes' narrative searches for the shrouded heart of the inventor's story by using stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other contemporaries as parables from which Carothers' truth may be drawn.".
- catalog contributor b10863340.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Hermes tells Carothers' story - his sudden, dramatic research successes and his relentless slide into depression, alcohol, and suicide - through Carothers' revealing letters to his professional colleagues (Roger Adams, C.S. Marvel, John R. Johnson) and his family and college classmates. At the end, Carothers' habit was to hide himself from his co-workers and friends. Hermes' narrative searches for the shrouded heart of the inventor's story by using stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other contemporaries as parables from which Carothers' truth may be drawn.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-336) and index.".
- catalog description "This is a story of invention and chemistry and the ineluctable fate of the inventor of nylon. Wallace Carothers was hired by DuPont in 1928 to lead a program called basic research. Carothers brought a passion to his work, and wanted to synthesize large molecules that would challenge Emil Fischer's largest molecule of 4200 molecular weight. In a burst of creativity in the spring of 1930, Carothers gave us our first truly synthetic rubber and fiber. The rubber quickly became neoprene; the fiber, in time, led to nylon. Carothers took an infant science called polymer chemistry, defined it, and guided it toward its present maturity. He gave us condensation polymerization.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 345 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0841233314 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "History of modern chemical sciences, 1069-2452".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[Washington, D.C.] : American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "660/.092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937.".
- catalog subject "Chemists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Nylon.".
- catalog subject "QD22.C35 H47 1996".
- catalog title "Enough for one lifetime : Wallace Carothers, inventor of nylon / Matthew E. Hermes.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".