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Special "Women in IP" series of the monthly eTISC Quiz
This time we are looking for not only the invention but also for the inventor. As you may imagine it is a woman.
Correct answer:
The invention we were looking for is called "KEVLAR", which is a life saving material. It was invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek. For more information about this extraordinary women please go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kwolek
And the winners are (by order of received emails with correct answers):
1. Raul N.Norbe
Project Development Officer
Office of the Vice-Mayor
Quezon City
Philippines
2. Karin Ferriter
Intellectual Property Attaché
Permanent Mission of the United States to the WTO
Geneva
Switzerland
3. M.T. Kumudini Gunasekare, PhD
Project Scientist
Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology & Innovation
Colombo
Sri Lanka
The Molecular formula is: [-CO-C6H4-CO-NH-C6H4-NH-]n
Photo by "Cjp24"