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1936

Commercializing plastic glass

In the early 1930s, William Chalmers, PhD'30, devised a new method for producing an important but scarce ingredient of plastic glass: methyl methacrylate. His discovery enabled the mass commercialization of plastic glass in America and Britain.

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