Rockcliffe St. J. Manley (26 March 1925 – 31 December 2011) was a Jamaican-Canadian chemist known for his development of the electrospinning technique of producing polymer nanofibres and for his work on cellulose.
He spent most of his later academic career at McGill University in Canada, in the Pulp and Paper Science Division of the Chemistry Department.
In 1953 he received his PhD from McGill University on the subject “Rotations, Collisions and Orientations in Model Suspensions” (supervised by Stan Mason[1]), and published early papers on the physics of particle motions.
[4] Manley's PhD student, Lidia Larrondo,[5] with whom he published the electrospinning work, was a refugee from General Pinochet’s Chile.
Manley won the Anselme Payen Award from the Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division of the American Chemical Society in 2002.