Paul John Flory

Paul John Flory, born Jun. 19,1910, in Sterling, ILlmois, died Sep. 9,1985, in Big Sur, CA, USA. Walter Hugo Stockmayer, born Apr. 7, 1914, in Rutherford, New Jersey, died May 9, 2004, in Norwich, Vermont. 

The rigid molecular mechanics was a very useful tool for Paul John Flory (1910-1985), American chemist and professor at Cornell and Stanford. Using such mechanics. Hory developed a theory of polymers that explained... 

Paul John Flory (1910-1985) Professor at Stanford University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1974 for work in the field of synthetic and natural macro molecules. 

In spite of his many contributions to polymer science, only a few bit aphies have been written on Nobel Laureate Paul John Flory (1X2). His contributions are cited in many treatises (3)(4) but like Alfrey, Huggins, Mark, Marvel, Merrifield, and Pauling, he is not mentioned in the leading bic raphical reference on American chemists and chemical engineers (5). Yet, few scientists have contributed more to the macromol mlar science in industry and academia than Professor Floiy. 

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The final paper in The Collected Papers of Wallace Carothers on Polymerization is the classic plenary lecture at the Faraday Discussion of 1935 reviewed in A Prehistory of Polymer Science [5]. Just as Humphry Davy s greatest gift to Chemistry was Michael Faraday, Wallace Carothers revealed in this paper that there was a new scientist working on fundamental properties of polymers Paul John Flory (1910-1985). 

Equations (4.98) and (4.102) are the backbone of a method describing thermodynamic properties of macromolecular systems akin to the van der Waals approach to low molecular weight systems. The lattice approach outlined here was pioneered independently by Staverman and van Santen (Stavermann and van Santen 1941), Huggins (Huggins 1941,1942) and Flory (Paul John Flory, Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on the physical chemistry of macromolecules, 1974) (Flory 1941,1942 Koningsveld and Kleintjens 1988). 

Paul John Flory, 1910-1985, American physicochemist, Nobel Prize, 1974. 

Flory, Paul John (1910-85) American chemist whose contribution to the understanding of the nature of polymers earned him the 1974 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Polymers are macromolecules consisting of long sequences of repetitions of small chemical groups called monomers. Many natural large molecules are polymers, as are synthetic plastics. 

A polymer symposium was held in conjunction with the international conference on theoretical physics in Tokyo and Kyoto the invited lectures were delivered by Paul J. Flory, John G. Kirkwood, Akira Ishihara, and Ei Teramoto [15]. 

Flory, Paul John (1910-85) American polymer chemist. Flory s early work consisted of helping Wallace CAROTHERS to develop nylon and neoprene. He began to investigate the properties of polymers in the 1930s. Flory solved the difficulty that a polymer molecule does not have a fixed size and structure by using statistical techniques to calculate a distribution of polymer chain lengths. Flory also worked on polymers in which there are links between chains. This led to work on the elasticity of rubber. Flory summarized his work in the classic books Principles of Polymer Chemistry (1953) and Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules (1969). Flory won the 1974 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on polymers. 

I had become acquainted with butyl rubber through conversations witii Drs. Paul Flory and William Sparks at the Gibson Island (MD) AAAS conferences in the late 1930 s and early 1940 s. Later Dr. John Durland and I were employed as consultants by Rubber Reserve on the first commercial production of this elastomer in 1943 at Baton Rouge, LA. 

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