5️⃣5️⃣ Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1923-2014) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, better known as Kevlar. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1995, only the fourth woman member of 113 at the time.

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