Inventors and Innovators: Adel Halasa

Purdue graduates continue to develop innovations and breakthroughs that help move the world forward. Purdue Today will highlight these inventors and innovators by featuring two each month in the Purdue Today newsletter and on social media.

Adel Halasa developed the tread polymers for the Goodyear Aquatred tire, released in 1991.

Halasa has more than 250 patents and is a 1997 recipient of the Charles Goodyear Medal given by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division, to members who "have exhibited exceptional technical competence by making significant and repeated contributions to rubber technology."

For more on Halasa, visit the Inventors & Innovators website. 

The Inventors & Innovators website contains Purdue alumni from business and industry; technology; medicine and health; and the food and consumer industries.