Paul Flory
American chemist (1910-1985) · United States · Scientists · Died at 75
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Something wrong?He made sense of the long molecules that modern life is built from - plastics, rubbers, synthetic fibers - by figuring out how they move, coil, and dissolve. The Nobel committee called it fundamental for a reason.
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Paul John Flory was born June 19, 1910, and trained as a chemist at a moment when polymers were still mysterious tangles in the lab. He pioneered the understanding of how macromolecules behave in solution - work that was both theoretical and experimental, mapping the physics of materials most people only knew as products. In 1974 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for those fundamental achievements in the physical chemistry of macromolecules. He died September 9, 1985, having spent a career translating the chaos of long-chain molecules into equations the field could use.
In common with Paul
Pierre-Gilles de GennesBoth received Polymer Physics Prize
Robert S. Langer, Jr.Both received Herman Mark Award in Polymer Chemistry
F. Sherwood RowlandBoth received Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
William E. MoernerBoth received Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
Otto BayerBoth received Charles Goodyear MedalHerman F. MarkBoth received Herman Mark Award in Polymer ChemistryFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.