Awards & Winners

Paul Flory

Date of Birth 19-June-1910
Place of Birth Sterling
(Whiteside County, Illinois, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist, Chemist, Engineer
Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a leading pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules".

Awards by Paul Flory

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1974


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the modes of formation and structure of polymeric substances.)
Priestley Medal
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules)