Paul Flory
Chemist, Academic
1910 – 1985
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Who was Paul Flory?
Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a leading pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules".
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- Born
- Jun 19, 1910
Sterling - Also known as
- Paul John Flory
- Paul J. Flory
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Manchester College
- PhD, Ohio State University
Physical Chemistry
(1931 - 1934) - Elgin High School
- Employment
- Stanford University
- Lived in
- Elgin
- Big Sur
( - 1985/09/09)
- Died
- Sep 9, 1985
Big Sur
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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