Frank Fanning Jewett
Frank Fanning Jewett (born January 5, 1844 in Newton Corner , Middlesex County, Massachusetts , † July 1, 1926 in Honolulu County, Hawaii ) was an American chemist.
Jewett studied at Yale University (Bachelor's degree in 1873, Master's degree in 1875), Harvard University (as research assistant to Wolcott Gibbs ) and in Germany (Göttingen, Berlin). He taught from 1876 to 1880 at the Imperial University in Tokyo and from 1880 at Oberlin College as a professor of chemistry and mineralogy. In 1912 he retired. He spent the last years of his life in Hawaii. He is buried in Oberlin.
One of his students was Charles Martin Hall , who, encouraged by Jewett as his student, developed the molten flux electrolysis process for the production of aluminum (using cryolite ), later known as the Hall-Héroult process . Jewett made the laboratory available to him for experiments. He also stimulated Hall by showing Friedrich Wöhler's approach to depicting pure aluminum (Wöhler process 1827).
His wife Sarah Frances Gulick Jewett (1854–1937) wrote books on hygiene. She was a missionary's daughter and they were married in Tokyo in 1880. She also wrote a biography of Jewett ( Frank Fanning Jewett (1844-1926): The beloved teacher , Oberlin).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Weeks, Discovery of the elements, 1956, 604. With photo.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jewett, Frank Fanning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newton Corner , Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1926 |
| Place of death | Honolulu County, Hawaii |