Frank Austen Gooch

Frank Austen Gooch ( born 2 May 1852 in Watertown, Massachusetts, † August 12 1929 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American chemist.

Gooch studied at Harvard University, graduated 1872 AB, in 1873 professor of chemistry at the Lawrence School and in the following year Josiah Parsons Cooke assistant in the chemical laboratory at Harvard University. In 1876 he continued his studies with the help of Parker Scholarship in Europe, received his doctorate in 1877 in Cambridge to Dr. phil. and A. M. and was Pricatassistent of Oliver Wolcott Gibbs. In 1879 he was in Newport (Rhode Iceland ) at the chemical laboratory of the newly formed United States Geological Survey. In 1881 he became a chemist at the Northern Transcontinental Survey, Raphael Pumpelly had just founded. From 1884 he was a chemist at the Geological Survey in Washington DC.

From 1886 to 1918 he was professor of chemistry at Yale University and conducted research in the field of inorganic and analytical chemistry.

Works (selection)

• Analyses of Water of Yellowstone National Park with an account on the Methode of Analyses employed. Gov. Print. Office, Washington, D.C. 1888 ( with James Edward Whitfield ).
• The direct determination of bromine in alkaline mixtures of bromide and iodides. 1890 ( with J. R. Ensign ).
• A method for the determination of iodine in salts. (together with Philip Embury Browning )
• Outlines of qualitative chemical analysis. 6th Ed Chapman & Hall, London 1928 ( with PE Browning )
• Two methods for the direct determination of chlorine in mixtures of alcaline chlorides and iodides. Yale in 1890 ( with F. W. Mar)