The Essentials

Super Glue inventor Harry Coover, M.S. ’42, Ph.D. ’44, died March 26 in Tennessee at age 94. Last year, President Barack Obama presented Coover with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Super Glue did not make Coover rich, but he was most proud of the adhesive’s use in spray form to stop wounded soldiers [...]

Since its invention in 1942, it has played vital roles in venues from the battlefield and operating room to manufacturing plants and dental offices. Today, you’re most likely to find it in ordinary households – used to fix toys, appliances and craft projects. But when Harry Coover M.S. ’42, Ph.D. ’44 first stumbled upon it [...]