Kevlar inventor Stephanie Kwolek dead at 90. Stephanie Kwolek, 83, shown in this June 20, 2007 file photo taken in Brandywine Hundred, Del., wears regular house gloves made with the Kevlar she ...

DOVER, Del. - Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in ...

DOVER, Del. -- A pioneering DuPont chemist who invented the tough fibers used in Kevlar body armor is being lauded for helping save the lives of thousands of law enforcement officers and soldiers.

A woman whose search for new materials for automobile tires 50 years ago led to the accidental discovery of Kevlar died June 18 in Delaware. Stephanie Kwolek, 90, never became a household name, but ...

Colleagues say the DuPont chemist credited with inventing the body armor component Kevlar has died at age 90. Her friend, Rita Vasta, told The Associated Press that Stephanie Kwolek (KWOH’-lehk) died ...

Stephanie Kwolek poses for a photo holding with a spool of Kevlar, in this June 20, 2007, photo taken in Brandywine Hundred, Del. DOVER, Del. – Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot ...

DOVER, Del. - Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in ...

Thousands of police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty owe their lives to a Delaware woman named Stephanie Kwolek. Kwolek, who died Wednesday at 90, was a DuPont Co. chemist who in 1965 ...

DOVER, Del. — Police Lt. David Spicer, who dons protective body armor as part of his daily routine, will forever be grateful for the woman whose discovery of Kevlar fiber saved his life more than a ...