Donald Fletcher Holmes
Donald Fletcher Holmes
1910-1980
American chemist and inventor who with William Hanford (1908-1996), a colleague at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., developed polyurethane in 1942. Holmes spent his entire career with DuPont, working in the company's textile divisions researching synthetic materials that formed the basis for many of the global business segments of an organization once called "the world's largest chemical company."
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