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Paul Flory
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Paul Flory

1910 – 1985 · aged 75

American chemist (1910-1985)

Born
19 Jun 1910 · Sterling
Died
8 Sept 1985 · Big Sur

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 86 years
  1. 19 Jun 1910BornBorn in Sterling
  2. 1954AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1962AwardPolymer Physics Prize
  4. 1962AwardWilliam H. Nichols Medal
  5. 1968AwardCharles Goodyear Medal
  6. 1969AwardPeter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
  7. 1971AwardElliott Cresson Medal
  8. 1973AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  9. 1974AwardNational Medal of Science
  10. 1974AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 1974AwardPriestley Medal
  12. 1976AwardHerman Mark Award in Polymer Chemistry
  13. 1977AwardPerkin Medal
  14. 8 Sept 1985DiedDied in Big Sur

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1910 – 1985).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910 – September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules".

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