• Roy Joseph Plunkett (June 26, 1910 – May 12, 1994) was an American chemist. He discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, in 1938...
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    Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) was accidentally discovered in 1938 by Roy J. Plunkett while he was working in Chemours Chambers Works plant in New Jersey...
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  • 1938 Polytetrafluoroethylene (commonly known as teflon), discovered by Roy Plunkett at DuPont. 1941 Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is discovered at the...
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    (polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE). PTFE was invented serendipitously by Roy Plunkett in 1938, while working for a joint venture of the DuPont company. The...
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    polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a fluoropolymer discovered in 1938 by Roy Plunkett, a chemist with DuPont. His son, Robert W. Gore, in college at the time...
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    invented nylon. In 1938, Otto Bayer invented polyurethane. In 1941, Roy Plunkett invented Teflon. In 1946, he invented Polyester. Polyethylene terephthalate...
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  • night-constable of Whitechapel, London Robert Plunkett (d. 1815), President of Georgetown University Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994), inventor of Teflon Sean Plunket...
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    Midgley Jr. and Charles F. Kettering, 1928) and the discovery of Teflon (Roy J. Plunkett, 1938), the field of organofluorine chemistry had not attracted a great...
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  • – roller skates Ivan Plotnikov (1902–1995), Russia – kirza leather Roy Plunkett (1910–1994), U.S. – Teflon Petrache Poenaru (1799–1875), Romania – fountain...
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  • making poly-tetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon discovered by Roy Plunkett 1939 – Dislocations in metals confirmed by Robert W. Cahn 1947 – First...
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