Monday, June 23, 2014

AP Mobile: Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90

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Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90

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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty, he owes his life to a woman in Delaware by the name of Stephanie Kwolek.

Kwolek, who died Wednesday at 90, was a DuPont Co. chemist who in 1965 invented Kevlar, the light...

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