Warren Lee McCabe (August 7, 1899 – August 24, 1982) was an American Physical Chemist and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the profession of chemical engineering. He is widely known for the eponymous McCabe–Thiele method for analysis of distillation processes and his book, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, a major textbook. References External links NAE Website - Dr. Warren L McCabe Chemical Engineering Turns 100 1899 births 1982 deaths University of Michigan alumni Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty American chemical engineers 20th-century American engineers