Leo Hendrik Baekeland is a Belgian Chimiste , known for its research in Photographie and on the plastics.

Biography

Wire of modest a Shoe-maker of Ghent in Belgium, Leo Bakeland was born to with it in 1863. Endowed in Chemistry, Mathematical physics and economy, it obtains a Doctorat in Sciences with the university of its city in 1884. After having taught a few years, a honeymoon brings it to the the United States in 1889 where it is fixed. As of 1891, it is able to market a photographic paper revolutionary. Being able to develop in artificial light, this paper meets an immediate success. In 1899, Eastman Kodak repurchases the process for the fabulous amount at the time of a million dollars. This operation will finance others Recherche S which will lead in 1907 to the development of the Bakélite which will insert the world in the era of the Plastics. This invention was worth the Franklin Médaille to him in 1940. He dies in Beacon in the state of New York in 1944. The magazine Time classified it among the twenty great minds of the 20th century.

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