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	Leo Baekeland Summary
		Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born in 1863 in Ghent, Belgium.
		Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, on November 14, 1863, the son of working-class parents.
		Born in Ghent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid.
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		Born in Ghent, Belgium, Baekeland graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Ghent in 1882 and a doctoral degree in 1884.
		Baekeland was a professor of chemistry at the University of Ghent from 1882 to 1889 and was a professor of chemistry and physics at the Government Higher Normal School of Science, Bruges, Belgium, from 1885 to 1887.
		Baekeland was a member of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board and the U.S. Nitrate Supply Commission, chairman of the committee on patents of the National Research Council, trustee of the Institute of International Education, and a member of the advisory board of the Chemical Division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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	Leo Hendrik Baekeland
		Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944) invented Bakelite in 1907, and his inventive and entrepreneurial genius also propelled him into several other new chemical technological ventures at the turn of the 20th century.
		Leo Hendrik Baekeland with his wife Céline and their children, Nina and George, on a family outing at Snug Rock, Yonkers, New York, around 1900.
		Baekeland began to investigate the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde, and first produced a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called "Novolak," which never became a market success.
	www.chemheritage.org /classroom/chemach/plastics/baekeland.html (552 words)

	Leo Baekeland
		Born in Ghent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid.
		Baekeland became a multimillionaire as a result of the explosion in the manufacture and use of Bakelite.
		Baekeland is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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	Leo Baekeland: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		(Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid.
		Baekeland began to investigate the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde.
		Baekeland became a multimillionaire as a result of the explosion in the manufacture and use of Bakelite.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leo_baekeland.htm (1179 words)

	Baekeland, Leo
		Born in St. Martens-Latem, Belgium, Leo Hendrick Baekeland was the son of a cobbler (Karel Baekeland) and a housemaid (Rosalia Merchie).
		Baekeland developed high pressure and high temperature techniques that greatly improved the molding of this plastic, which he named Bakelite and patented in 1909.
		Baekeland earned many honors and awards, including the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute (1940), and the Perkin Medal (1916) and Messel Medal (1938) of the Society of the Chemical Industry.
	www.chemistryexplained.com /Ar-Bo/Baekeland-Leo.html (562 words)

	THE PLASTICS MAN
		Leo Baekeland's conquest of an unyielding, brittle resin led to nylons and Tupperware.
		But Leo Hendrik Baekeland could afford to be different, for he had accomplished something in his life so very different from anyone before him that the very stuff of which the world was made began to change.
		Baekeland was father to the family of versatile, exasperating, indispensable materials that would make the appearance and the very feel of the 20th century unique.
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	Wilsonart Laminate - The Statement: Leo Hendrick Baekeland
		chemist Leo Hendrick Baekeland, the inventor of phenolic resin.
		Baekeland was trying to find a synthetic substitute for wood varnish, but what he produced was too tough.
		Baekeland died in 1944 at the age of eighty years in Beacon, N.Y. Oversized, toylike pins made of phenolic resin.
	www.wilsonart.com /design/statement/printarticle.asp?articleID=120 (286 words)

	Leo Hendrik Baekeland
		Leo Baekeland graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Ghent in 1882 and a recieved a doctor's degree in 1884.
		Leo Baekeland was a professor of chemistry at the University of Ghent from 1882 to 1889 and was a professor of chemistry and physics at the Government Higher Normal School of Science, Bruges, Belgium from 1885 to 1887.
		Leo Baekeland was an industrial chemist who helped discover the modern plastics industry through his invention of Bakelite, the first thermosetting plastic (a plastic that does not soften or lose its shape when it is heated).
	www.pembinatrails.ca /vincentmassey/topchem/bland.htm (621 words)

	Leo Baekeland
		Baekeland showed so much promise in chemistry that he was admitted a full-time student at the University of Ghent at the age of seventeen.
		Leo was quite pleased when he was awarded a three-year fellowship to travel overseas to learn new methods and understandings in the chemistry of photography.
		Baekeland later said, “I tried to work out several inventions, the development of which would cost a fortune in subsides.” In poor health and with no money and rising bills, he came to the sensible conclusion that he was wasting time on big dreams far beyond his budget.
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	Leo Baekeland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1909 - 1910), was born on November 14, 1863 in Gent, Belgium.
		Baekeland was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry from 1885 to 1889; Associate Professor 1888-89 at Ghent.
		The first phenolic resin, Bakelite, often used in pot handles, was invented in 1909 by Leo Hendrik Baekeland the same year he was President.
	www.unit5.org /christjs/Baekeland.htm (195 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES - New York Times
		WHEN Tony Baekeland, great-grandson of the man who made millions by inventing the first commercially successful plastic, stabbed his mother to death in 1972, it was the final chapter in a family saga with plot twists worthy of ''Dynasty'' - or perhaps Tennessee Williams.
		Leo Baekeland's plastic found thousands of uses, from toilet seats and the streamlined radios of the 20's and 30's to a crucial, but still secret, use in the first atomic bomb.
		Tony Baekeland's family life was chaotic, centered around his mother's intense pursuit of the social status to be gained by befriending the famous.
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	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Leo Hendrik Baekeland
		The son of a shoemaker and a maid, Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1863.
		Baekeland fell in love with Celine Swarts, the daughter of his university mentor, and won a traveling scholarship that took the young couple to New York.
		Baekeland made a fortune in 1899 when George Eastman paid $750,000 -- over $15.5 million in 2002 dollars -- for the invention.
	www.pbs.org /search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/baekeland_lo.html (403 words)

	TIME 100: Leo Baekeland
		With that windfall, Baekeland, his wife Celine (known as "Bonbon") and two children moved to Snug Rock, a palatial estate north of Yonkers, N.Y., overlooking the Hudson River.
		The initial tease for Baekeland — "Doc Baekeland" to many — was the rising cost of shellac.
		Baekeland recognized a killer ap when he saw one.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/baekeland.html (451 words)

	Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland
		Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium to a poor shoe repairman and his wife on November 14, 1863, five days before President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
		Baekeland began experimenting with phenol and formaldehyde and noticed that condensation produced a residue that couldn’t be removed from the test tubes.
		Baekeland received many honors and honorary degrees from around the world, belonged to many chemical societies, was president of the Electrochemical Society in 1909.
	www.yonkershistory.org /bake.html (1303 words)

	» Leo Baekeland Great Personalities Biography : Incredible People : Famous People Guide: Famous Personalities
		To Baekeland and others aiming to find commercial opportunities in the nascent electrical industry, that gunk was a signpost pointing toward something great.
		The challenge for Baekeland and his rivals was to find some set of conditions - some slippery ratio of ingredients and heat and pressure - that would yield a more workable, shellac-like substance.
		And when Baekeland put this stuff into the bakelizer, he was rewarded with a hard, translucent, infinitely moldable substance.
	profiles.incredible-people.com /leo-baekeland (1184 words)

	Society of Chemical Industry: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Baekeland, who came from Belgium but settled in the US, was a born entrepruneur.
		Baekeland and his assistant spent three years working on an artificial replacement, and finally in 1907 came up with a new material, which he called Bakelite.
		After patenting the material, known to chemists as polyoxybenzylmethylen-glycolanhydride, he unveiled it to the American Chemical Society in 1909 in three versions, Bakelite A, B and C. It was Bakelite C that was of particular interest as an insulator.
	www.soci.org /SCI/general/2004/html/ge383.jsp (546 words)

	Leo Baekeland
		Leo Baekeland wordt miljonair, uit: Het Tekens, 1995 (98 seconden)
		Baekeland mag dan een van de grootste wetenschappers van de twintigste eeuw zijn geweest, in zijn geboortestad Gent was hij niet erg populair.
		Baekeland combineerde zijn wetenschappelijk genie immers met een buitengewone neus voor zaken.
	www.degrootstebelg.be /dgb_master/100belgen/dgb_baekeland_leo/index.shtml?video_2 (390 words)

	Bakelite
		Baekeland's scientific contribution to the development of plastics was primarily in the discovery of the method by which the reaction of phenol and formaldehyde could be controlled, thereby making possible the manufacture of Bakelite on a large, commercial scale.
		Baekeland determined the optimal combination of heat, pressure, and an alkaline catalyst that were required for phenol and formaldehyde to combine into a thermosetting resin.
		Leo Baekeland, who was rightfully called the Father of Plastics, died in 1944.
	www.modelatrader.com /maffi/maffibakelite.html (813 words)

	History of Plastic Leo Baekeland set out to make an insulator
		Leo Baekeland set out to make an insulator, but he invented the world's first true plastic.
		Soon, Baekeland tried to invent a substance which was hundred percent synthetic (later to be known as plastic), as a substitute for the high-priced shellac.
		Baekeland immediately filed patent applications and his invention soon became known to many chemists.
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	Leo Hendrik Baekeland - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Home > Categories > Science and Technology > Chemistry > Chemistry: Biographies > Leo Hendrik Baekeland
		In 1889 he emigrated to the United States.
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	Biography of Leo Baekeland - biography, autobiography & memoir resources
		Inventing a material used in nearly every imaginable industry in the early to mid 1900s, Leo Baekeland never gave up his dream of creating a moldable polymer that would keep its form after it cooled.
		Born in Belgium to a lower, middle-class family, Leo Baekeland would study at the University of Ghent in 1882 and eventually graduate with a doctorate in natural science at the age of 21.
		Leo Baekeland soon patented his material, formed Baekeland Industries, and began marketing it in various industrial fields.
	www.biographyshelf.com /leo_baekeland_biography.html (429 words)

	Biography of Leo Burnett - biography, autobiography & memoir resources
		Early business ventures allowed him to make it, but it was his creation of the Marlboro Man, the Jolly Green Giant, and Tony the Tiger that would make his small mid-western company became one of the largest, most sought-after agencies in the world.
		Although Leo Burnett studied journalism at the University of Michigan and even worked after graduation as a reporter, he found that it was in advertising where the money was made.
		The Leo Burnett Company, Inc. was formed, and the company started with small products – anything they could contract.
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	Baekeland Leo Hendrik - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Baekeland Leo Hendrik - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (1863-1944), Belgian-born American chemist, who invented, in about 1906, the synthetic resin later known as Bakelite.
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	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		The first in the long line of man-made plastics was called Bakelite, after its inventor, Leo Baekeland.
		Baekeland made his new material by mixing the disinfectant carbolic acid (phenol) with the strong-smelling preservative formaldehyde to make a third material that was nothing like the original two.
		Baekeland's trick was to take the resin produced by the two chemicals and heat it under pressure to produce a soft solid that could be molded and hardened or powdered and set under pressure.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/baekeland.html (256 words)

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	Leo Baekeland & Wallace Carothers: Maestros of Molecules Two industrial chemists formulate the Synthetic Century US ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the start of the 20th century, "Doc" Baekeland was ensconced at Snug Rock, his Hudson River Valley estate, with his wife, two children, and a 4-horsepower motorcar, casting about for a fresh challenge.
		Baekeland, after turning 75, decided to leave the future of plastic to younger men.
		Unlike Edison and Baekeland, Carothers as an adult was dedicated to pure science; he cared much less about practical applications.
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	Connected Earth: Baekeland, Dr. Leo (1863-1944)
		The chemist Leo Baekeland is regarded as the 'father of plastic'.
		This was vastly superior to the standard and unreliable daylight process, and he sold the idea to Kodak for over a million dollars.
		In the new century, Baekeland was experimenting with phenol and formaldehyde and noticed a strange resin that stuck to the inside of the test tube and wouldn't budge.
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