Stephanie Kwolek was a famous chemist. She was born in 1923 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. She invented a liquid crystalline solution which is used to make boat hulls, bullet resistant vests, coats, dress shirts, cut resistant gloves, fiber optic cables, firefighters suits, fuel hoses, helmets, lumberjack’s suits, parts of airplanes, radial tires, special ropes, pieces of spacecraft, some kinds of bikes, tennis rackets, canoes, and skis.
      She graduated from a women’s college and she majored in chemistry. She worked as a chemist for Dupont. 
     Her hobbies are sewing and gardening. Stephanie Kwolek is still alive.
     Stephanie originally wanted to make medicine. She invented her invention by accident. She mixed polymers together but her results came out way different than she expected. Then she took the polymers to be spun. The guy who controls the spinner said “no” to her. It took 3 days to talk the man into spinning the polymers. The polymers spun perfectly. 
     It took ten years to perfect her invention. The materials she used were polymers and a spinneret. The spinneret man spun the polymers for her. She got 4 patents for her invention.
     Her invention made her famous. She got put in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame.
 

Works Cited

Blashfield, Jean. Women Inventors. 1996.

“Innovative Lives.”  http://www.so.edu/leme/son/centerpieces/lilves/lecture05.html. 2/24/04.