Elmer Peter Kohler (November 6, 1865 - May 24, 1938) was an American organic chemist who spent his career on the faculty at Bryn Mawr College and later at Harvard University.
However, he avoided other public speaking events, such as scientific meetings and talks, which those who knew him attributed to shyness.
[1][2][5] Throughout his career, Kohler was noted as a skilled experimentalist, continuing to work in the laboratory himself till very shortly before his death.
[1][2][5] He was particularly noted for skill in fractional crystallization and for investigations of the synthesis and properties of various unsaturated compounds of interest.
[1] Among his earliest graduate students at Harvard was James B. Conant, who later became president of the university.