FTP, name the DuPont research chemist who, in 1934, discovered the synthetic fiber Nylon?
His favorite sister, a radio star, died suddenly in 1937, and the loss compounded a long struggle with depression.  Two days after his 41st birthday he killed himself in a hotel room in Philadelphia by taking potassium cyanide, ending a brilliant career which included becoming the first organic chemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences and 31 papers establishing general theories on polymers.  FTP, name the DuPont research chemist who, in 1934, discovered the synthetic fiber Nylon?
His favorite sister, a radio star, died suddenly in 1937, and the loss compounded a long struggle with depression.  
Wallace Hume Carothers