Hugh Bradner
Hugh Bradner was a UC Berkeley physicist in 1951 when he heard about bubble-filled rubber called neoprene, which he believed could be used to make underwater suits for Navy divers. He designed and built some prototype "wetsuits" (the Navy was already using tightly-sealed "drysuits"), but the military showed no interested, and Bradner never followed through on patenting his idea. A Southern Califor...
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