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Wallace Hume Carothers
(27 Apr 1896 - 29 Apr 1937)
American chemist.
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Science Quotes by Wallace Hume Carothers (1 quote)
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan’s popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry.
— Wallace Hume Carothers
Letter (4 Apr 1932) to Pauline G. Beery. Hagley Museum and Library Collection, Wilmington, Delaware. 1784.) As cited in Matthew E. Hermes, Enough for One Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon (1996), 13.
See also:
- 27 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Carothers's birth.
- Enough for One Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon, by Matthew E. Hermes. - book suggestion.