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Frank Austin Gooch (1852 – 1929) was an American chemist and engineer.
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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:
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]
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