Harold Hibbert biographies and reprint

Harold Hibbert was born in Manchester, England on August 27 1877. He died in Philadelphia, PA on May 13, 1945. He studied at the University of Wales and the University of Leipzig and upon receiving his degree Hibbert pursued an additional three years of postgraduate research in the U.S. and in England. In 1910 Hibbert settled in America first at the Du Pont research laboratories, then at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. He later taught at Yale and McGill Universities. his specialties were gas warfare, cooling agents and cellulose chemistry.