Leo Baekeland
Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland (Ghent), November 14, 1863 – Beacon (New York), February 23, 1944) was a Belgium born, American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic, which marks the beginning of the modern plastics industry.
Read more about Leo Baekeland: Career, The Invention of Bakelite, Decline and Death