Elmer Kraemer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elmer Kraemer

American chemist

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1898

Place of Birth: Liberty, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 07-Sep-1943

Profession: engineer, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Elmer Otto Kraemer (27 February 1898 – 7 September 1943) was an American chemist whose studies and published results materially aided in the transformation of colloid chemistry from a qualitative to a quantitative science.
For eleven years, from 1927 to 1938, he was the leader of research chemists studying fundamental and industrial colloid chemistry problems and a peer of Wallace Hume Carothers at the Experimental Station of the E.
I.
du Pont de Nemours Company where both men contributed to the invention of nylon that was publicly announced on 27 October 1938.
The 1953 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Hermann Staudinger, had a high regard for the American pioneers in polymer chemistry, particularly Kraemer and Carothers