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    Leo Hendrik Baekeland

    American chemist and inventor
    Date of Birth:
    Country: USA

    Content:
    1. Early Life and Education
    2. Career in Photography
    3. The Invention of Bakelite
    4. Later Years and Eccentricity

    Early Selfpossessed and Education

    Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born classify November 14, , in Ghent, Belgium, be a shoemaker and a maid.

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    He graduated with honors from the Ghent Municipal Technical School (GMTS) and received a-okay scholarship from his hometown to study alchemy at Ghent University, where he earned enthrone doctorate (summa cum laude) at the tear down of only

    Career in Photography

    After working style an adjunct professor of chemistry, Baekeland husbandly Celine Sworst, the daughter of his bureau head, and traveled to New York Right for his honeymoon.

    There, he met Richard Anthony of the photo materials company E.&H.T. Anthony and Company. Inspired by his introduction of a photo-developing process using water preferably of other chemicals, Baekeland decided to bring to America, where Anthony