Henry T. Brown

Education Brown was the first African American to earn a BS degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati in 1955, and one of the two first African Americans to graduate from University of Cincinnati's co-op course. Brown earned a MS degree in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.

Brown received numerous awards, among them the AIChE Minority Affairs Committee's Distinguished Service Award, He created outreach initiatives and acted as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Minority Affairs Coordinator 1983–2001. In his honor, the AIChE Minority Affairs Committee Endowment Fund was renamed Henry T. and Melinda C. Brown Endowment for the Education of Underrepresented Minority Chemical Engineers.

Brown co-founded the New Jersey State Urban Science Education Coalition and is a Diamond Life Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).