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Richard Ebright was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and he was the only child

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He was a pretty lonely child, as he mentions he could'nt play football/basketball

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Ebright liked to collect butterflies rocks, coins and fossils he was also an eager astronomer .

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He lost his dad, and he was very close with his mother as she always kept him occupied, and encouraged him with his interests by taking him on trips and buying him books

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Right when his mom got him a book called Monarch X about the Monarch butterflies, his journey of tagging butterflies started

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He had a lot of patience as he took time to study about a butterfly's life cycle, he showed immense interest in what he did and had a experimental nature who was a great observer

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He understood the idea of real science when he entered the county science fair and he lost as he just showed a neat display of frog tissues and everyone else made real experiments and won something, and thats when his competitive spirit sparked

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He understood the reason he lost and made up his mind on what t do next

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He won the project as he had a experimental setup on a viral disease related to monarchs and beetles

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Started his research which led to the discovery of a new insect hormone, he and a fellow science student built a new device which found that the golden spots in a pupa releases necessary hormones, he got first place for it in the county science fair and won third in zoology

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high school and senior year achievements 

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high school and senior year achievements 

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As a high school junior, Richard Ebright continued his advanced experiments on the monarch pupa. That year his project won first place at the International Science Fair and gave him another chance to work in the army laboratory during the summer His device won third in zoology as well.  . He also got a chance to work during the summer at the entomology laboratory of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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In his senior year, he went a step further. 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. That project won first place for zoology at the International Fair. He spent the summer after graduation doing further work at the army laboratory and at the laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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The following summer, after his freshman year at Harvard University, Ebright 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 sophisticated instruments, he was able to identify the hormone’s chemical structure.

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A year-and-a-half later, during his junior year, Ebright got the idea for his new theory about cell life. It came while he was looking at X-ray photos of the chemical structure of a hormone.  A year-and-a-half later, during his junior year, Ebright got the idea for his new theory about cell life. It came while he was looking at X-ray photos of the chemical structure of a hormone

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Ebright and his college room-mate, James R. Wong, worked all that
night drawing pictures and constructing plastic models of molecules
to show how it could happen. Together they later wrote the paper that
explained the theory.

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If the theory proves correct, it will be a big step towards
understanding the processes of life. It might also lead to new ideas for
preventing some types of cancer and other diseases. All of this is possible
because of Ebright’s scientific curiosity. His high school research into
the purpose of the spots on a monarch pupa eventually led him to his
theory about cell life.

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Participated in debates
Took part in MUN
Straight A student
Always puts in extra efforts
Scientific mind
Always determined