“Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.”
Quote by Leo Baekeland
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Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland was a renowned chemist born on November 14, 1863, and died on February 23, 1944. He made significant contributions to the field of synthetic high polymers, most notably with the invention of Bakelite, a phenolic plastic that revolutionized industrial production in the early 20th century. more