Robert C. Reid (June 11, 1924, Denver, Colorado – May 18, 2006, Lexington, Massachusetts) was a chemical engineer and professor at MIT.
Merchant Marine Academy and a master's degree from Purdue University as well as an Sc.D.
He taught at MIT for 34 years, from 1951 to 1985, and was famous for dressing up as Willard Gibbs for certain lectures.
He pushed to change the MIT chemical engineering department's unofficial policy of hiring only its own graduates.
[2] In addition to his work in the field of chemical engineering, Robert Reid served in the Merchant Marine during World War II aboard an oil tanker.