Frank Austin Gooch
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Frank Austin Gooch (1852 – 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 who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.[1] 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 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.[2][3][4]
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "Frank Austin Gooch". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "Frank Gooch". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
External links
- Frank Austin Gooch (biography at University of Illinois)
- Descendants of Thomas Hastings website
- Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook
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