Julian
Werner
Hill
(1904 - 1996)
developed
nylon
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Julian Hill was born in St. Louis,
Missouri on 4 September 1904. After gaining his
PhD in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology he joined DuPont research
laboratories in 1928.
Whilst working in the department
headed by Wallace
Carothers he researched the program which led
to the discovery of a process for making nylon
fibres. As an employee, Hill did not have any
patent rights to his discovery and his name did
not even appear on the patent application which
was made in 1937.
He retired from DuPont in 1964
and died in Hockessin, Delaware on 28 January
1996 at the age of 91.
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