19 Facts About Paul Flory

Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules.

Paul Flory was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules".

Paul Flory's father worked as a clergyman-educator, and his mother was a school teacher.

Paul Flory's ancestors were German Huguenots, who traced their roots back to Alsace.

Paul Flory first gained an interest in science from Carl W Holl, who was a chemistry professor at Manchester College.

Paul Flory was posthumously inducted into the Alpha Chi Sigma Hall of Fame in 2002.

Paul Flory died on September 9,1985, following a heart attack.

Paul Flory completed a years of master's study in organic chemistry under the supervision of Prof.

In 1934 Flory joined the Central Department of Dupont and Company working with Wallace H Carothers.

From 1943 to 1948 Paul Flory worked in the polymer research team of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

In 1948, Paul Flory gave the George Fisher Baker lectures at Cornell University, and subsequently joined the university as a professor.

In 1938, after Carothers' death, Paul Flory moved to the Basic Science Research Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati.

Paul Flory then was offered a position with the faculty in the Fall of the same year.

Paul Flory was initiated into the Tau chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma at Cornell in 1949.

Paul Flory introduced the concept of excluded volume, coined by Werner Kuhn in 1934, to polymers.

Paul Flory correctly identified that the chain dimension in polymer melts would have the size computed for a chain in ideal solution if excluded volume interactions were neutralized by experimenting at the theta point.

Paul Flory was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1953 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957.

Paul Flory received the Priestley Medal and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1974.

Paul Flory received the Carl-Dietrich-Harries-Medal for commendable scientific achievements in 1977.