Robert Gore re-enacting how he discovered the versatile material known as Gore-Tex. His discovery involved stretching polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon.Credit...via W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. Robert Gore, a chemical engineer whose lab experiments with a polymer led unwittingly to the invention of Gore-Tex, the versatile, waterproof material used in ski jackets, aortic stent grafts a