As noted in <i>A Prehistory of Polymer Science, </i>a true scientific community of polymer scientists gelled at the 1935 Faraday Discussion on Polymerization.  These men were from many different scientific fields, and from many different countries. But they all chose to commit their time and effort to articulating the paradigm of chain molecules. This talk will detail fifty of them, with more extended treatments of perhaps ten of them.  Some from each of the decades since 1890 are included.  Some of them are even still alive, like Richard Stein.  I have personally met more than half of them in my career both as a polymer scientist and as a historian of the field.  A professional length biography of Paul Flory has appeared (and can be purchased).

The nifty fifty: Polymer scientists who created the discipline

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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