John H. Eicher

John Harold Eicher ((1921-03-30)March 30, 1921 – (2016-06-07)June 7, 2016) was an organic chemist, philosopher of science, historian, and author. He was a Manhattan Project scientist who worked at Columbia University to develop the first atomic bomb, and taught chemistry at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for 37 years. Eicher was the author of several chemistry publications and, with his son David J. Eicher, was coauthor of the reference book Civil War High Commands.

In 2016, Eicher was elected by the State of Ohio to the class of 2016, Ohio Senior Citizens of the Year.^[1] He taught for Miami University's Institute for Learning and Retirement for many years, and was a teacher for 75 continuous years, with his first assistant teaching role in 1941 in a mineralogy class at Purdue University.