Charles S. Schollenberger Explained

Charles Sundy Schollenberger (August 8, 1922[1] - January 25, 2002[2]) was an American chemist. He invented the first thermoplastic polyurethane (Estane).[3]

Early life

Schollenberger was born in 1922, on the campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, to agronomist Charles Jay and Anne (Sundy) Schollenberger.[4] His childhood interest in chemistry began when his father let him perform experiments in his lab.

Schollenberger graduated from Wooster High School in 1940. He earned an AB degree in chemistry from the College of Wooster in 1943.[5] He completed his doctoral degree in organic chemistry in 1947 at Cornell University.

On October 15, 1949, he married Katharine Rosanne Kennon. In 2009, son Charles David Schollenberger set up the Charles Schollenberger Arboretum Visitors Center Biological Lab Endowment at Ohio State University.

Career

Schollenberger was hired at B. F. Goodrich in 1947 by Waldo Semon, helping to open a new research center in Brecksville, Ohio in 1948. In 1952, Schollenberger patented the first thermoplastic polyurethane.[6] He continued developing the product[7] until 1958 when the new material debuted under the trade name Estane.[8] It is a strong, flexible, abrasion-resistant material that was used in textile coatings, tennis shoe soles, automobile parts, as well as magnetic tape. Schollenberg was promoted to R&D Fellow - the highest research position at Goodrich in 1975. He was a prolific inventor, with 18 U.S. and 10 foreign patents. Schollenberger retired in 1984, when Estane accounted for roughly one third of specialty chemical sales at the company.

Recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Charles Schollenberger Obituary . genealogybuff.com . 27 September 2022.
  2. Web site: Memorial Directory . wooster.edu . College of Wooster . 27 September 2022.
  3. Web site: Ohio Obituary and Death Notice Archive . genlookups.com . 10 August 2022.
  4. News: Cleveland . Shawn . Schollenberger creates fund for Arboretum Lab . 27 September 2022 . Continuum - News from the college of food, agricultural and environmental sciences . 2 . The Ohio State University . Spring 2009. 1 .
  5. Industry News . Journal of Cellular Plastics . September 1975 . 11 . 5 . 224 . 10.1177/0021955X7501100502 . 208341210 . 27 September 2022. subscription .
  6. Book: Ferguson . Raymond C. . THE BECKMAN CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY - HERMAN E. SCHROEDER . 12 January 1987 . Chemical Heritage Foundation . Greenville, Delaware . 36 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20220927025712/https://scihist-digicoll-production-originals.s3.amazonaws.com/asset/f75f5bfd-569c-46d3-b6e0-7d94cbda676e/12963f78e0036451fae6cb89b2730ee2.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAU4GX5J7ESI6XHR42%2F20220927%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220927T013441Z&X-Amz-Expires=172800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22schroeder_he_0063_FULL_tb09j687m.pdf%22%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27schroeder_he_0063_FULL_tb09j687m.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Signature=787d9c7b1ecd08a5a79270e94648005543d0e5fff36ff11ae60879afc7295700. 2022-09-27 .
  7. Schollenberger . C. S. . Pappas . L. G. . Park . J. C. . Vickeroy . V. V. . Newton . E. B. . POLYURETHANE GAMMA RADIATION RESISTANCE. Preliminary Report, May 15, 1958-December 1, 1958 (No. NP-9572). . Goodrich (BF) Co. Research Center, Brecksville, Ohio . 1958 . 10.2172/4002511 .
  8. Schollenberger . C. S. . Scott . H. . Moore . G. R. . Polyurethan VC, a virtually crosslinked elastomer. . Rubber Chemistry and Technology . 1962 . 35 . 3 . 742-752 . 10.5254/1.3539953.

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