Stephanie Kwolek

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Gender	Female
Death	10 years ago
Date of birth	July 31,1923
Zodiac sign	Leo
Born	Pittsburgh
	Pennsylvania
	United States
Date of died	June 18,2014
Died	Wilmington
	Delaware
	United States
Residence	Wilmington
	Delaware
Parents	John Kwolek
	Nellie Kwolek
Job	Inventor
	Chemist
Education	Margaret Morrison Carnegie College
	College of Engineering
	Carnegie Mellon University
Awards	National Medal of Technology and Innovation
	Perkin Medal
	Chemical Pioneer Award
Known for	invention of Kevlar
Field	Polymer chemistry
Full name	Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Nationality	American
	Polish
Date of Reg.	2019-03-05 12:10:09
Date of Upd.	2023-08-06 22:04:51
ID	509594

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Stephanie Kwolek Life story

Stephanie Louise Kwolek was a Polish-American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar. Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. She discovered the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness: poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide.

Why are so few women inventors named on patents?

Feb 16,2020 6:46 am

... We should applaud the fact that some of the greatest scientists and inventors throughout history have been women - from Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin to Grace Hopper, [a computer programming pioneer], and Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar, she says...