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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet some of the people who have contributed to the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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Stephanie L. Kwolek

In a polymer research lab at DuPont, Kwolek discovered the super fiber known as Kevlar.

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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.
DuPont; gift of Stephanie Kwolek

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Signed portrait of a man
Svante August Arrhenius
1859 - 1927
Arnold O. Beckman
1900 - 2004
Joan Berkowitz
1931 - 2020
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
1907 - 1964
black and white photo of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
ca. 1864 - 1943
Undated portrait of mycologist Vera Charles
Vera Katherine Charles
1877 - 1954
Edith Coleman
1874 - 1951
black and white photo of an older woman wearing glasses
Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
1922 - 2020
Alice Hamilton
1869 - 1970
woman with gray hair wearing glasses
Darleane C. Hoffman
1926 - 2025
photo from an old driver's license
Eugene Houdry
1892 - 1962
Margery Milne
1914 - 2006
man dressed in a suit with a yellow tie
Mario Molina
1943 - 2020
portrait of Ellen Richards in a cap and gown
Ellen H. Swallow Richards
1842 - 1911
Undated photograph of Lee Riley
Lee W. Riley
1949 - 2022
Susan Solomon
b. 1956
color photo of a man with a baby on his shoulders
Calvin Ross Sperling
1957 - 1995

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