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3M Company (originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, healthcare, and consumer goods. [5] The company produces over 60,000 products under several brands, [6] including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal ...
Owatonna, Minnesota, U.S. Known for. Post-it Note creation. Arthur Fry (born August 19, 1931) [1] is an American inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it Note (though this is disputed by some), an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it products are sold in more than 100 countries.
History Arthur Fry with a Post-it note on his forehead. In 1968, Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, attempted to develop a super-strong adhesive.Instead, he accidentally created a "low-tack", reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive for the aerospace industry.
Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape. Biography. When Drew joined 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1921, it was a modest manufacturer of sandpaper.
1978 3M scientists, Hugh J. Van Noordwyk and Michael A. Santoro published an article on 3M's hazardous waste program in the Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) journal, which is supported by the United States Department of Health and Human Services's (DHHS) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), an institute of the ...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ( PFAS [1] or PFASs [2]) are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain. The PubChem database lists more than 6 million unique compounds in this group. [3] PFASs started being used in the mid-20th century to make fluoropolymer coatings ...
Died. March 4, 1978. (1978-03-04) (aged 90) Known for. Founding The McKnight Foundation in 1953 and being its chairman of the board. William L. McKnight (November 11, 1887 – March 4, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who served his entire career in the 3M corporation, rising to chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966.
Spencer Ferguson Silver III (February 6, 1941 – May 8, 2021) was an American chemist and inventor who specialized in adhesives. 3M credits him with having devised the adhesive that Arthur Fry used to create Post-it Notes. [1] [2]