Word: nieuwiand
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...from discouraged, he lectured on his experiments. One day a scout for the du Pont Co. heard him, immediately enlisted his aid. Du Pont was seeking a means of producing synthetic rubber, thought Father Nieuwiand might be on the right track. Two years later Father Nieuwland's divinylacetylene was treated with a vulcanizing agent and there was produced a material somewhat resembling rubber. It bounced...
Last week dour Father Nieuwiand, undisturbed by publicity, paused in his work only long enough to say that he would give all the money he gets from the discovery to the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Then he went back to his laboratory, the door of which he opens with a foot pedal because his arms are usually full of retorts, bottles and discoveries...
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