Robert W. Gore

Robert W. Gore ( born April 15, 1937 in Salt Lake City ) is an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman who along with his father Bill Gore, the Gore- Tex, a waterproof but vapor permeable membrane made of polytetrafluoroethylene ( PTFE) invented.

Gore attended the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in chemical engineering. As a student in Delaware in 1957, he discovered a way to insulate electrical conductors with PTFE tape. In 1969, he stretched heated PTFE rods and thus created expanded PTFE, which was patented and sold under the trademark Gore -Tex.

His father Bill founded WL Gore & Associates in 1958. Robert Gore was president of the company from 1976 to 2000, and is currently (2010) nor its Board Chairman.

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Patent

  • Patent US3953566.
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