Ira Williams

Ira Williams (1894–1977^[1]) was a DuPont chemist at DuPont’s Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey, who in 1930 made commercial Neoprene possible by producing a soft, plastic form of chloroprene that could be processed by the rubber industry.^[2]^[3]

He won the 1946 Charles Goodyear Medal.

References[]

^ Patterson, Gary (2014). Polymer Science from 1935-1953: Consolidating the Paradigm. Springer. p. 28. ISBN 9783662435366.
^ Hounshell, David A.; Smith, John Kenly (1988). Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980. Cambridge University Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780521327671.
^ Wallace H. Carothers, Ira Williams, Arnold M. Collins, and James E. Kirby (1937). "Acetylene Polymers and their Derivatives. II. A New Synthetic Rubber: Chloroprene and its Polymers". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 53 (11): 4203–4225. doi:10.1021/ja01362a042.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[1] Patterson, Gary (2014). Polymer Science from 1935-1953: Consolidating the Paradigm. Springer. p. 28. ISBN 9783662435366.

[2] Hounshell, David A.; Smith, John Kenly (1988). Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980. Cambridge University Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780521327671.

[3] Wallace H. Carothers, Ira Williams, Arnold M. Collins, and James E. Kirby (1937). "Acetylene Polymers and their Derivatives. II. A New Synthetic Rubber: Chloroprene and its Polymers". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 53 (11): 4203–4225. doi:10.1021/ja01362a042.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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