ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, February 2, 1996               TAG: 9602020036
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: B-2  EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: NEWS OBIT 

NYLON'S UNINTENDED DISCOVERER DIES

Julian Hill, a chemist whose accidental discovery of a tough, taffylike compound revolutionized everyday life after it proved its worth in warfare and courtship, died Sunday in Hockessin, Del., at 91.

Hill was a member of a duPont Co. team studying the behavior of certain molecules that chain together to form larger ones, called polymers

In 1930, the team came up with a concoction that duPont's research head thought useless. But Hill was intrigued with it. Soon, he and his colleagues were playing with the material and finding that it could be shaped into remarkably long and strong strands.

- The New York Times

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