Talk:Julian W. Hill

Not quite the inventor of nylon
Interesting new article. However I was surprised to read Hill described as the inventor of nylon, since this is usually credited to Wallace Carothers. The claim seems to be based on the headline of the NY Times obituary. The LA Times is more restrained and says that Hill helped discover nylon. More reliable chemical sources are the Dupont reference (now in the article) and the ACS Landmark document (which I will add). These two make it clear that Hill developed the useful method of cold drawing n 1930, but applied it to an early polyester rather than nylon, and that Carothers later applied Hill's cold drawing method to the polyamide later named nylon. I will revise the article accordingly. Dirac66 (talk) 02:21, 3 April 2017 (UTC)