Peter J. T. Morris is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London and University College London. He was formerly Keeper of Research Projects at the Science Museum, in charge of extensive chemistry collections. He was given the Edelstein Award by the American Chemical Society in 2006 and the Wheeler Award by the RSC Historical Group in 2013. Peter has studied the history of polymers for forty-five years, beginning with his doctoral thesis on the development of synthetic rubber by I. G. Farben (1982) and followed by Polymer Pioneers (1986), the forerunner of the current volume. He has also published The American Synthetic Research Program (1989), The Matter Factory: A History of the Chemistry Laboratory (2015) and most recently, with Peter Reed, Henry Enfield Roscoe (2024).