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[[File:Frank Austin Gooch 1886.jpg|thumb|Frank Austin Gooch in 1886]]
'''Frank Austin Gooch''' (1852 &ndash; 1929) was an American [[chemist]] and [[engineer]].
==Biography==
He was born to Joshua G. & Sarah Gates (Coolidge) Gooch in [[Watertown, Massachusetts]].  On his mother's side of the family, he was a descendant of [[Thomas Hastings (colonist)|Thomas Hastings]] who came from the [[East Anglia]] region of England to the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in 1634.<ref>Buckminster, Lydia N.H., The Hastings Memorial, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of Thomas Hastings of Watertown, Mass. from 1634 to 1864, Boston: Samuel G. Drake Publisher (an undated NEHGS photoduplicate of the 1866 edition), 126.</ref>
Gooch invented the [[Gooch crucible]], which is used, for example, to determine the solubility of [[bituminous]] materials such as road tars and petroleum asphalts.  He was awarded a Ph.D. by [[Harvard University]] in 1877.  Gooch was a professor of chemistry at [[Yale University]] from 1885 to 1918.
He devised or perfected a large number of analytical processes and methods, including:
* Invented the [[Gooch crucible|Gooch filtering crucible]].
* Studied the quantitative separation of lithium from the other alkali metals, and the estimation of boric acid by distillation with methanol and fixation by calcium oxide.
* Developed methods for estimating molybdenum, vanadium, selenium, and tellurium.
* Studied the use of the paratungstate and pyrophosphate ions in analysis.
* Developed a series of methods for estimating various elements based on the volumetric determination of iodine.
* Discovered a method for the rapid electrolytic estimation of metals.
He was a member of the [[Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[American Philosophical Society]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and the U.S. [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Frank+Austin+Gooch&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Frank Austin Gooch |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/frank-austin-gooch |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Gooch |url=https://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001173.html |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref>
==Further reading==
*  ''Biog. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci.'' 1931, 15, 105–135.
*  ''Ind. Eng. Chem.'' 1923, 15, 1088–1089.
*  ''Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci.'' 1935–36, 70, 541.
*  ''Am. J. Sci.'' (Ser. 5) 1929, 18, 539–540.
*  ''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'', James T. White & Co.:  1921–1984; vol. 12, p329-330.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/goochfa.pdf Frank Austin Gooch] (biography at University of Illinois)
* [http://www.thomas-hastings.org Descendants of Thomas Hastings website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Descendants-of-Thomas-Hastings-c1605-1685/73420529952 Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook]
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