National Inventors Hall of Fame

“What is claimed is:
Fiber of polymer consisting essentially of at least one carbocyclic aromatic homo- or co-polycarbonamide having chain extending bonds from each aromatic nucleus which are coaxial or parallel and oppositely directed ….”

U.S. Patent 3,819,587 to Stephanie Louise Kwolek, inducted 1995, for liquid crystalline polymers, commercialized as Kevlar fabric used, for example, in bullet-resistant vests