Vautrin [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Vautrin
Vautrin is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin . He appears in the novels "Le Père Goriot" (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in "Illusions perdues" (Lost illusions, 1837–43) and "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes" (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–44), the sequel of "Illusions perdues", under the name of "Abbé Carlos Herrera". In
Fritz Klatte
Fritz Klatte (28 March 1880, Diepholz – 11 February 1934) was a German chemist and the discoverer of polyvinyl acetate, with German patent (GP 281687 1912) for its preparation from acetylene gas.
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was discovered by French physicist Henri Victor Regnault, and German physicist Eugen Baumann. Klatte designed the production process, although never successfully commercialised it. Klatte is sometimes incorrectly attributed to be the discoverer or inventor of PVC.
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