Stephanie Kwolek

Stephanie Louise Kwolek (July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was an American chemist. She invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide—better known as Kevlar.Wholly Aromatic Carbocyclic Polycarbonamide Fiber Original Kevlar patent awarded in 1974 to Stephanie Kwolek 

She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek won many awards for her work in polymer chemistry. 

Kwolek died in Wilmington, Delaware from a short-illness, at the age 90 on June 18, 2014.

References

Other websites

 Stephanie Kwolek at Famous Women Inventors
Interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek , March 21, 1998, from the Oral History Program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Stephanie Kwolek , Video, from The Catalyst Series: Women in Chemistry , at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

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