Camille Dreyfus
Camille Dreyfus · Science & Medicine
Chemist known for cellulose acetate and co-founding Celanese
1878, Basel, Switzerland — 1956, New York City, United States
Switzerland · United Kingdom · United States
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Camille Dreyfus was a Swiss-born chemist who, with his brother Henri, developed the first commercial process for making cellulose acetate and pioneered acetate yarn, founding the companies British Celanese and the Celanese Corporation. Their innovations underpinned modern synthetic fibers and plastics, and he later endowed the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to support chemistry. Dreyfus was born into a Jewish family in Basel and earned his doctorate at the University of Basel.
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Chemist known for cellulose acetate and co-founding Celanese
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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