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Although Wallace Carothers (1896-1937) was not alive to personally interact with the ongoing polymer science community, he left a legacy of publication that was quickly collected and edited by Herman Mark (1895-1992) and G. Stafford Whitby (1887-1972).

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Patterson, G. (2014). Flory and Friends. In: Polymer Science from 1935-1953. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43536-6_2

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