Stephanie Kwolek
Stephanie Kwolek
- Born: July 31, 1923, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States.
- Died: June 18, 2014, Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
- Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American chemist, whose career at the DuPont company covered over forty years.
- She is best known for inventing the first of a family of synthetic
fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness in the 1960s: poly-paraphenylene
terephthalamide—better known as Kevlar.
- Kevlar fibre is used in
body armour, bullet-proof gear, sporting gear,
boats, puncture-resistant tires and also in some smartphones.
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