Harry Coover

Harry Wesley Coover, Jr. ( born March 6, 1917 in Newark, Delaware, † March 26, 2011 in Kingsport, Tennessee ) was an American chemist, inventor, and among other things, the discoverer of Eastman 910, known as super glue.

Life

Coover received his Bachelor of Science degree from Hobart College before he received his Master of Science and Ph. D. at Cornell University. He worked from 1944 to 1973 for Eastman Kodak as a chemist and from 1973 to 1984, the Vice- President. He spent his life in Kingsport, Tennessee.

1942 Coover was working on finding a material for observation prisms for the first time with cyanoacrylates, but proved to be unsuitable for this purpose because of their stickiness. Nine year later, this material again placed in his field of vision, as Kodak should develop heat-resistant canopies. Again led the stickiness of the substance to not pursue this path. But Coover recognized now to use the substance as an adhesive the possibilities. In 1958, Super Glue on the market.

First, the bonding of solids was in the foreground, but Coover first recognized the possibilities of cyanoacrylates for bonding of living tissue and applied for a patent on it. First used in the Vietnam War, this technique was applied in the course of time worldwide.

Coover reported on 460 patents. He himself considered "programmed innovation", a management method for research and development as his most important work. By introducing Kodak came to the discovery of 320 new products and to a growth of sales revenues of $ 1.8 billion to $ 2.5 billion. Coover marketed this technique later worldwide.

Coover received the Southern Chemist Man of the Year Award for his outstanding accomplishments in your personal creativity. He also had the Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management, the Maurice Holland Award and the Medal of Honor of the Industrial Research Institute. 2004 Coover was inducted into the National Inventor 's Hall of Fame. 2010, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, he was awarded.

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