FAMOUS CHEMIST
AWARD OF MEDAL FOUNDER OF GREAT INDUSTRY (Received January 39, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Jan. 18 The medal of the Society of the Chemical Industry has been awarded to Dr. L. H. Baekeland, successful inventor and founder of the plastics industry, whose name is perpetuated in the well-known commodity, bakelite. The medal will be presented' at a gathering in Ottawa next June.
Dr. Baekeland was born in Belgium in 1863 and went to the United States in 1888. He invented a well-known photographic paper and subsequently produced bakelite, a kind of resin made with carbolic acid and formaldehyde, which can be moulded into any shape. In 1910 be founded the Bakelite Company, which later became the Bakelite Corporation and created a new industry. By 1936 its output of an enormous variety of articles for household, electrical and other purposes reached a value of £2b,000,000 a year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22941, 20 January 1938, Page 11
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