The life and achievements of chemist Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar

Stephanie Kwolek absolutely belongs in the inventors hall of fame, in the women's hall of fame, on the American Chemical Society's website, and on lots of other lists of honorees.

Stephanie Kwolek, you see, invented Kevlar at DuPont in 1965.

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Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar

It's a pretty outstanding title for a chyron.

It's pithier than "the fourth woman inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame."

It's more widely understandable than "only female winner of DuPont's Lavoisier Medal" (as of 2020, at least).

It's far pithier than "inventor of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide", the actual chemical name of Kevlar.

In my world, though, all of those are less important than "invented the nylon rope demonstration" that I use in the classroom every year and throughout the summers.

Read some more about Stephanie Kwolek

• from Massive Science
• from Forbes
• from the Smithsonian
• from Wikipedia