Hermann Studinger (1881-1965)

In 1920, Hermann Studinger, a German chemist proposed for the first time that plastics were made of giant long chain molecules. This lead to a sudden burst of scientific investigations on plastics. As a consequence, a large number of new plastics were intoduced in the 1920s and 1930s. This included PVC. Staudinger won the Nobel Prize in 1953 for his contribution to the development of plastics.

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