소개
리오 헨드릭 아서 베이클랜드(Leo Hendrik Arthur Baekeland, 1863년 11월 14일 ~ 1944년 2월 23일)는 벨기에 출신 화학자로 미국의 기업인이고, 플라스틱 공업의 시조(始祖)로 여겨지는 인물이다.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career in the United States. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in 1907. He has been called "The Father of the Plastics Industry" for his invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive, non-flammable and versatile plastic, which marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry.
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