Died 1977 | ||
Ira Williams (1894–1977) was a DuPont chemist at DuPont’s Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey, who in 1930 made commercial Neoprene possible by producing a soft, plastic form of chloroprene that could be processed by the rubber industry.
He won the 1946 Charles Goodyear Medal.
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