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Spencer Silver

I was genuinely dismayed to read recently in The New York Times of the death of a man who has had a profound impact on my life. He was Spencer Silver, inventor of the glue that makes Post-it Notes stick.

A super organised mum has shared her genius way of keeping on top of household chores - by sticking Post-it Notes to the things she needs to clean.  Emma Roberts, 34, from Birmingham, took to TikTok to share a simple trick which makes working your way through tasks a lot more satisfying.  The PR manager, who goes by The Organised Mum and has racked up more than 89,000 likes on her handy videos, shared her hack of adding post-it notes to help motivate people to clean, saying it works much bett...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Stephen Martin would often tell the story about when he was a Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor and a company would come in and claim they spent all the money they could on their corporate compliance program. Martin would then ask, “How much did you spend last year on Post-It Notes?” The answer was always four to five times the amount of their annual compliance budget. This immediately put the company back on its heels and wo...

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Inventor of Post-it Note adhesive made something people didnt know they needed, says wife Spencer Silver, the inventor of the adhesive used on one of 3Ms best-known products, the Post-it Note, died May 8. He was 80. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: May 14, 2021 4:37 PM ET | Last Updated: May 14 Spencer Silver, the inventor of the adhesive used on one of 3Ms best-known products, the Post-it Note, died at his home in Minnesota on Tuesday, May 8.(3M via AP) As It Happens6:32Inventor of Post-i...

The man who invented the adhesive later used on Post-it Notes has died at his home in Minnesota.

Spencer Silver, inventor who made the Post-it Note stick, dies at 80 Emily Langer © 3M Spencer Silver Spencer Silver, a chemist who accidentally invented the delicate adhesive used in Post-it Notes, an innovation that blanketed the office landscape like a blizzard with messages and reminders and became a favored modern medium for jotting notes to oneself and others, died May 8 at his home in St. Paul, Minn. He was 80. Dr. Silver’s death was announced by 3M — maker of...

The 3M chemist accidentally invented the adhesive used in Post-it Notes, an innovation that became a favored modern medium for jotting notes to oneself and others.

Spencer Silver was 80 and died May 8 at his home, the family’s obituary said. Silver was working in a company lab in 1968 when he discovered a unique adhesive formula, according to 3M. The adhesive allowed notes to be easily attached to surfaces, removed and even re-posted elsewhere without leaving residue like other glues. Silver looked for several years for a practical use for the adhesive, calling it a “solution waiting for a problem to solve.” In 1974, his colleague Art Fry cam...