Meet Maurice Ward: The hairdresser who invented a ‘nuclear-proof’ material and took its secret to the grave |
In an era dominated by institutional science and billion-dollar laboratories, an unlikely figure from Blackpool claimed to have created one of the most extraordinary materials ever seen. Maurice Ward, a British hairdresser with no formal scientific training, developed a heat-resistant substance in the 1970s and 80s that appeared to defy conventional limits. He called it…