Harry Linn Fisher (19 January 1885 – 19 March 1961) was the 69th national president of the American Chemical Society,[1][2] and an authority on the chemistry of vulcanization.
[3] Fisher was the author of four popular books on the chemistry and technology of rubber, and the holder of 50 patents.
His father was the engineer, who in 1883, took the first locomotive from Kingston, N. Y., to Weehawken, New Jersey, along the tracks of the old New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad.
He majored in classics, but switched to chemistry in his junior year, obtaining his AB degree in 1909.
Fisher then attended Columbia University on scholarship, earning his PhD degree in 1912 under Marston Taylor Bogert.