biography
| name: |
Hanford, William Edward
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908– )
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| biography:
| Chemist and inventor, born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA. He received a PhD from the University of Illinois and joined E I Du Pont de Nemours & Co as a research chemist. He and Donald F Holmes, a colleague at Du Pont, developed polyurethane in 1942. He later became director of research for M W Kellog, and vice-president for research and development at Olin Industries (1957). |
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