Harry Coover
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Harry Coover (b. March 6, 1919) invented cyanoacrylate glue.
He was born in Newark, Delaware. He received his B.S. from Hobart College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Coover invented the cyanoacrylate adhesive called "super glue", while working at Eastman Kodak in 1942. He holds 460 patents and is responsible for advances in the fields of graft polymerization, organophosphorus chemistry, and olefin polymerization.
Currently and in World War II the cyanoacrylates Harry Coover created are used for sealing punctures, connecting veins and arteries, and to stop the bleeding of wounds.
[edit] Patent
U.S. Patent 2,768,109 Alcohol-Catalyzed α-Cyanoacrylate Adhesive Compositions, filed June 1954, issued October 1956
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