Arnold Stancell is an African American chemical engineer and scholar known for his contributions to petrochemical research.
[1][3] Stancell continued his research when he began teaching at MIT and founded a program to study plasma reactions at surfaces.
[1][3] In 1971, Stancell had the opportunity to accept a tenured professorship, but chose to go back to Mobil Oil Company.
[1][2][3][4] After his retirement from Mobil Oil Company in 1993, he began teaching chemical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1994 and received the title of Turner Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2001.
[1][2][6] Stancell collaborated with the US Department of Interior after the 2010 BP oil spill and was appointed to the National Science Board by President Barack Obama in 2011.