HISTORY OF NYLON AND NEOPRENE:

Bellis, Mary "Cracker Jack" Inventors at About. Retrieved January 1, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcrackerjacks.htm

Wallace Hume Carothers (b. April 27, 1896, d. April 29, 1937) can be considered the father of the science of man-made polymers and the man responsible for the invention of nylon and neoprene. The man was a brilliant chemist, inventor and scholar and a troubled soul. Despite an amazing career, Carothers held more than fifty patents; the inventor ended his own life.
Carothers was born in Iowa and first studied accounting and later studied science (while teaching accounting) at Tarkio College in Missouri. While still an undergraduate student, Carothers became the head of the chemistry department. Carothers was talented in chemistry but the real reason for the appointment was a personnel shortage due to the war effort (WWI). He received both a Master's degree and PhD from the University of Illinois and then became a professor at Harvard, where he started his research into chemical structures of polymers in 1924.

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