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Online Resources

> Faces in Polymers, an education module for teachers and students
> Polymers and People: An Informal History
> Spinning the Elements, an online exhibit about Wallace Carothers and the nylon legacy

Print Resources (Search the complete CHF Publications Catalog)

> Polymers and People: An Informal History, by Eric Elliott
> Polymer Pioneers: A Popular History of the Science and Technology of Large Molecules, by Peter J. T. Morris
> Enough for One Lifetime: Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon, by Matthew Hermes
> Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry, by Yasu Furukawa

Oral Histories (Search all CHF Oral Histories)
> Stephanie L. Kwolek (1) (2)
> Joseph Labovsky
> Herman Mark
> J. Paul Hogan
> William O. Baker
> Search all CHF Oral Histories

Personal Papers in the CHF Archives (Search the CHF Archives)

> Paul Flory papers
> Carl Marvel papers

Also See:
The Othmer Library of Chemical History