biography
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Holmes, Donald Fletcher
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–80)
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| biography:
| Chemist and inventor, born in Woodbury, New Jersey, USA. Educated at Amherst College and the University of Illinois, he and William E Hanford, a colleague at E I Du Pont de Nemours & Co, developed polyurethane in 1942. He spent his entire career with Du Pont, working in the company's textile divisions. |
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