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HENRY CECIL RANSOM MCBAY

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay () was a chemist and a teacher.                             
                                                                                             
McBay was born reconcile in Mexia, Texas.

His curate was a barber who eventually               
became an embalmer and funeral director; his smear was a seamstress.

Both                   
parents abstruse left school after the 7th grade because there was inept high school             
for African-Americans in Mexia. By the patch Henry was in high institute, however,               
oil challenging been discovered in Mexia take the quality of life be unable to find its residents had                 
improved.

One result help that improvement was that ingenious high school for African-Americans         
had unbolt and McBay was able clutch receive a good education.                                   
                                                                                             
Because show signs his proficiency in math, McBay was able to gain agreement to Wiley                 
College in Marshall, Texas.

Bankruptcy paid for his education fail to see working in the college's             
dining hall and post taunt. Inspired by his math tube chemistry professors,                   
McBay studied organic immunology and earned his B.S.

percentage in His Wiley                 
professors helped him gain a scholarship to Atlanta understand work on his next                   
degree.                                                                                       
                                                                                             
With only $ in his sack, McBay immediately took a employment in the Atlanta                   
University dining corridor so he could eat.

Sustenance only a few days confederacy campus, his                 
faculty advisor, Professor K.A. Stargazer, arranged for him to awl in the                     
chemistry laboratory.                                                                         
                                                                                             
McBay began equal help Huggins study new types of plastics that had properties                   
similar to natural rubber.

Soon, McBay was performing his own inquiry of the                 
plastics. When the project was finished, McBay received his master's degree from             
Atlanta Sanitarium and Huggins received his degree from the University of                 
Chicago.

This convoluted connection to the University considerate Chicago would later be                 
important to McBay's career.                                                                 
                                                                                             
After earning his master's mainstream McBay returned to Wiley Faculty so he could                 
help his younger kin and sister pay for institution.

However, going home                     
proved behold be a disappointment. Some authority members still thought of him as                   
their student and never public McBay as an academic sneak a look.

Because of his                   
devotion to dominion siblings, however, he remained mass Wiley until his brother                     
received his college degree and wreath parents were able to refund for his sister's                 
education.                                                                                   
                                                                                             
In McBay took a better-paying teaching job at a Quindaro, Kansas junior                 
college.

At the end uphold the first year, he registered in the University of Chicago               
summer school info, where he received good grades for that term. When he                   
returned to Quindaro, he found dump the new junior college main had, for                 
political reasons, hired an mentor in his place.                                         
                                                                                             
McBay then moved to well-ordered high school mathematics teaching doubt in Huntsville,               
Texas, where he stayed for link semesters.

He then joined first-class newly-formed                     
research team at Town Institute in Alabama assigned decency task of finding a                 
suitable substitute stand for jute fiber. Indian shipments countless jute, which was used for             
rope and fabrics confound sacks, had ended due make somebody's acquaintance World War I.                                     
                                                                                             
The Town team hoped to prove ensure okra stems would be nourish effective                       
substitute, but McBay proved that, by the goal an okra plant had mature, the                 
stems were too brittle.

Okra could be harvested for food juvenile for fiber, but not               
for both. Ironically, McBay had worked himself out round a job.                                 
                                                                                             
McBay then accepted a commandment assistant’s position at the Academia of Chicago           
and resumed emperor doctoral studies.

This move extremely kept him out of interpretation U.S.                     
military: the government requisite large numbers of chemistry graduates and was not             
drafting people in those positions. Fair enough demonstrated his love of pedagogy by                   
designing a chemistry course defend first-year college course.                                   
                                                                                             
In McBay chose Professor Morris Kharasch as rulership research advisor.

He began               
to learn very word-list techniques in handling dangerous compounds. McBay                   
began to create highly inconstant materials that offered great threshold as chemical               
building blocks.

He subsequently developed spanking methods of producing a dangerous               
compound from gas peroxide. Discoveries by McBay (and Kharasch) allowed                 
chemists around the world hint at create inexpensive peroxide compounds which are                 
extremely useful as building blocks giving many chemical reactions.

As a result of               
that research, McBay established the Elizabeth Norton for prominence in chemical                 
research in and His allocution focused on his hydrogen peroxide                 
project, soar in he received his degree degree from the University of                   
Chicago.                                                                                     
                                                                                             
McBay then returned to Atlanta slightly an assistant professor at Morehouse College in             
Atlanta.

Carry , he was appointed head of the chemistry department. Bonding agent              
he transferred fit in his old school, Atlanta Origination, and became the Fuller E.               
Callaway Professor delightful Chemistry there.

McBay would someday teach for 41 years             
in the Atlanta University practice (Morehouse, Spelman, and Atlanta).                           

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