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Post-it note co-inventor dies at 80 in St. Paul, Minnesota home

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Spencer Silver, 80, died in his St. Paul, Minnesota home Saturday. He is credited with inventing the adhesive that lead to 3M's famed Post-it Notes. (3M) ST.

PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The co-inventor of the Post-it Note died Saturday at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Spencer Silver, 80, invented the adhesive that would later be an integral part of the popular 3M product, the company announced in a release Wednesday.

Silver made the breakthrough in 1968, discovering a formulation of adhesives that was strong enough to hold paper together but that could be removed and re-stuck again without damaging the paper.

After he made the discovery, he and his 3M colleagues began looking for applications, calling it a "solution waiting for a problem to.

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