The Woman Who Invented the Thread That Stops Bullets: The Genius of Stephanie Kwolek

by Edwin Brit Wyckoff

Book Overview

Stephanie Louise Kwolek is an American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. In 1964, in anticipation of a gasoline shortage, her group began searching for a lightweight yet strong fiber to be used in tires. The polymers she had been working with at the time formed liquid crystal while in solution, something unique to those polymers at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464402116
• ISBN13: 9781464402111
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.2" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5