Charles Emmett Waring (January 24, 1909 – February 16, 1981) was an American physical chemist and educator.
[1][2] Specializing in chemical kinetics, Waring served as a professor of chemistry at the University of Connecticut (UConn) from 1946 to 1979, spending twenty years as department chair between 1946 and 1966.
[1] Born in Philadelphia, Waring earned his BS from Muskingum College in 1931 and his MS and PhD from Ohio State University in 1934 and 1936.
In 1939, he won a Lalor Foundation fellowship to conduct research at Oxford University with Nobel laureate Cyril Norman Hinshelwood.
[1][2] Containing 64 modern laboratories, the research wing of UConn's Chemistry Building was named in Waring's honor in 1998.