Ebenezer Emmet Reid

Ebenezer Emmet Reid (June 27, 1872 – December 21, 1973) was an American chemist and a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Reid was born in Fincastle, Virginia, and studied chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.

During World War I he was involved in research on chemical warfare agents at the American University Experimental Station.

He identified the mechanism of ester hydrolysis in 1910, noting that it involves the fission of acyl-oxygen based on his studies on thioesters and thiols.

[3][4] Johns Hopkins University established the E. Emmet Reid Chair in chemistry in his honor.