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Kevlar, the next-generation body armor, to fight germs

For those of you who have never heard of Kevlar, here is a brief introduction to this extraordinary invention and the modern day alchemist Stephanie Kwolek, who invented and patented this material in the 1970s.
Upon graduating in 1946 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) with a bachelor’s degree, Stephanie Kwolek went to [...]