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Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930
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Leo Baekeland
Age: 80 †
Born: 1863
Born: November 14
Died: 1944
Died: February 23
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Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland
Leo Hendrick Baekeland
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
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I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
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In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
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How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
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