Paul Schlack

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Paul Schlack was born on 22 December 1897 and completed his studies at the Technischen in Stuttgart in 1921. He worked as a research chemist in Copenhagen for a year, then returned to Stuttgart. Around this time he developed a keen interest in amide chemistry. He would later synthesize Nylon 6 in the late 1930s, widely known by its tradename Perlon.

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