Ralph Louis Wain CBE FRS (29 May 1911 Hyde, Cheshire – 14 December 2000 Canterbury) was a British agricultural chemist.
[1] He read Chemistry at the University of Sheffield on scholarship, and with first class honours degree, and a Master of Science and PhD.
He lectured in chemistry at the South Eastern Agricultural College at Wye, until 1939.
He was Honorary Director of the Unit on Plant Growth Substances and Selective Fungicides at Wye.
He lectured at University of Kent at Canterbury where he was Honorary Professor in 1977.