Biography:Frank Spedding
| Frank Spedding
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| 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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