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Began collecting butterflies, rocks,  fossils, and coins.  Became an eager astronomer. His mother helped him and encouraged his interest in learning.

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Collected all 25 species of butterflies around his hometown.

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His father passed away. His mom had supported him. She would bring his friends for him.

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His mom had given him a children's book called "The Travels of Monarch X." The book told about monarch butterflies.

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At the end of the book, it showed that readers were invited to help study butterfly migrations. They were asked to tag butterflies for research by Dr. Fredrick A. Urquhart of the University of Toronto, Canada. Ebright's mom wrote to Dr. Urquhart. Soon, Ebright was attaching adhesive tags to the wings of monarchs.

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He entered a county science fair. But lost. He felt really sad. He realized the winners had tried to do real experiments, not just make a display for the fair. So he started to prepare for the fair the next year.

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He had asked Dr. Urquhart for ideas and he sent him a lot of suggestions. For the fair, he tried to find the cause of the viral disease that kills nearly all monarch caterpillars every few years. And he had won

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For the next year's fair, he was testing the theory that viceroy butterflies copy monarchs. Ebright's project was to see if birds would eat monarchs. He found that a starling would not eat ordinary bird food, but would eat all the monarch it could get.
He got first in the zoology and third in the overall county science fair.

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He began his research that led to his discovery of an unknown insect hormone, which indirectly led to his theory of the life of cells. He tried the find out the purpose of the 12 tiny gold spots on the monarch pupa. He made another project for this with the help of another science student and won first in the county fair.

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His project also got entry into the International Science and Engineering Fair. There he got 3rd in zoology.  Also got a chance to work during the summer at the entomology laboratory of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He continued his experiments on the monarch pupa and got first at the International Science Fair which gave him another chance to work in the army laboratory.

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He grew cells from a monarch’s wing in a culture and showed that the cells would divide and develop into normal butterfly wing scales only if they were fed the hormone from the gold spots. He again won first and spent the summer after graduation in the army laboratory and laboratory of the US Department of Agriculture.

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He went back to the laboratory of the Department of Agriculture and did more work on the hormone from the gold spots. Using the laboratory’s instruments, he was able to identify the hormone’s chemical structure

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Richard Ebright got the idea for his new theory about cell life. It came when he was looking at X-ray photos of the chemical structure of a hormone. He believed that, along with his findings of insect hormones, the photos gave him the answer of how the cell can ‘read’ the blueprint of its DNA.

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Richard Ebright graduated from Harvard with the highest honors, second in his class of 1,510. He went on to become a graduate student researcher at Harvard Medical School. There he began doing experiments to test his theory