Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland FRSEwas a Belgian-American chemist. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893 and Bakelite in 1907. He has been called "The Father of the Plastics Industry":13 for his invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic, which marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 November 1863
CountryBelgium
chemicals company ran
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.