# Kevlar Inventor Dead at 90

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 22, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevlar-inventor-dead-at-90/691348 "2014-06-22T04:06:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevlar-inventor-dead-at-90/691348/1 "2014-06-22T04:06:06Z")

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[Stephanie Kwolek](http://www.bangkokpost.com/most-recent/416623/kevlar-inventor-dies-at-90), who recently dies in a hospice.

She invented it while working for DuPont 50 years ago. Had been trying to find a substance that could reincore car tires.

RIP, Stephanie.

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevlar-inventor-dead-at-90/691348/2 "2014-06-23T22:02:42Z")

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she saved many lives. may her memory be eternal.

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**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevlar-inventor-dead-at-90/691348/3 "2014-06-24T18:37:08Z")

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The inventor of kevlar lived to 90?!  
Clearly not invented by a man, as 5 minutes after the weave was complete, it would have been all “hey ya’ll, watch this” and “hold my beer,” etc.

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**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevlar-inventor-dead-at-90/691348/4 "2014-06-24T20:38:23Z")

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> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#):
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> The inventor of kevlar lived to 90?!  
> Clearly not invented by a man, as 5 minutes after the weave was complete, it would have been all “hey ya’ll, watch this” and “hold my beer,” etc.

:dubious:

Gratuitous sexist joke in unrelated thread is gratuitous, sexist, and unrelated?

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevlar-inventor-dead-at-90/691348/5 "2014-06-25T00:36:50Z")

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> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#):
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> The inventor of kevlar lived to 90?!  
> Clearly not invented by a man, as 5 minutes after the weave was complete, it would have been all “hey ya’ll, watch this” and “hold my beer,” etc.

> [@TheSeaOtter](#):
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> :dubious:
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> Gratuitous sexist joke in unrelated thread is gratuitous, sexist, and unrelated?

Although that does remind me of what happens, _a lot_, over in Cambodia. Some clown will get himself a magic tattoo that will make him impervious to bullets, or buy a Buddhist amulet that supposedly has the same properties, and get a buddy to shoot him to test it out. Really. A poor man’s Kevlar indeed.

(You see these bullet-defying tattoos and amulets in Thailand too, but it always seems to be in Cambodia that some knucklehead really does put it to the test.)