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Frank Spedding



Fields Physics
Known for Frank Harold Spedding (22 October 1902 – 15 December 1984) was a Canadian-American chemist.

Frank Spedding is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. Frank Harold Spedding (22 October 1902 – 15 December 1984) was a Canadian-American chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals.[1]

Work and context

The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. A graduate of the University of Michigan and University of California, Berkeley, Spedding became an assistant professor and head of the department of physical chemistry at Iowa State College in 1937.

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References


Author: Harold Foppele


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