26 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 leading 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 was raised by Ezra Flory and Nee Martha Brumbaugh.

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

Paul Flory first gained his interest in science from Carl W Holl, who was a professor in chemistry.

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

Paul Flory died on September 9,1985, due to a massive heart attack.

Paul Flory originally entered the university under the major of just physical science.

Paul Flory ended up with receiving a master's degree in organic chemistry.

Paul Flory received his master's degree in organic chemistry, rather than physics due to insecurity.

Paul Flory discovered that polymers that are valid objects of scientific were proved contagious.

Paul Flory proved the hypothesis by Staudinger and Carothers, "polymers are in fact covalently linked macromolecules".

Paul Flory was a consultant for Dupont and IBM, not long after he retired.

Paul Flory was involved with the study of the foundations in the Soviet Union started off by the professor MV Volkenstein and his collaborators.

Paul Flory worked with the late professor of Kazuo Nagai in Japan.

Paul Flory felt the need to fight for scientists who were oppressed in various countries.

Paul Flory worked for the "Committee on Human Rights" which is known as the National Academy of Sciences from 1979 to 1984.

Paul Flory even had part finding a solution to polymers.

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.