Leo Baekeland
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic.
External links
- Bakelite Museum Bakelite: The Material of a Thousand Uses (including a short biography of Baekeland)
- Chemical Achievers: Leo Hendrik Baekeland
- The Time 100: Leo Baekeland
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