Ira Williams

Ira Williams (1894–1977) was a DuPont chemist at DuPont’s Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey, who in 1930 made commercial Neoprene possible by producing a soft, plastic form of chloroprene that could be processed by the rubber industry. 

He won the 1946 Charles Goodyear Medal. 

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Category:20th-century American chemists
Category:Polymer scientists and engineers
Category:1894 births
Category:1977 deaths