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He was born on April 2, 1850 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, son of William Smith and Fredericka (Ingersoll) Phillips.
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He was born on April 2, 1850 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, son of William Smith and Fredericka (Ingersoll) Phillips.
His early education was received at home from his mother. He completed his preparation for college at the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1866, but left in his junior year. Soon afterward he went to Germany to continue his study of chemistry. From 1871 to 1873 he studied with Karl R. Fresenius in his private laboratory at Wiesbaden. He studied the next year with Landolt at the Polytechnic School in Aachen. Owing to the illness of his father he was unable to complete his work in Germany for the doctor's degree.
His contact with the German system of university education stimulated him to continue his studies and as one result he received the degree of A. M. in 1879 and Ph. D. in 1893 - both from the University of Pittsburgh.
During a part of 1870 he was instructor in chemistry at Delaware College, Newark, Delaware. In 1874 he was fortunate in having the opportunity to be an assistant of the famous analytical chemist.
In 1875 he became a member of the chemistry staff of the Western University of Pennsylvania - now the University of Pittsburgh - where he remained until his retirement in 1915. During his forty years of service he not only taught all branches of chemistry but for much of the time also geology and mineralogy. For one year (1878 - 79) he lectured in chemistry at the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy.
He did not publish many articles, but his notes show that in his early work he anticipated principles which have been patented in commercial processes. The failure to publish was due partly to modesty and partly to interest in the scientific rather than the commercial aspects of investigations. In connection with this work he edited the second edition of Methods for the Analysis of Ores, Pig Iron, and Steel in Use at the Laboratories of Iron and Steel Works in the Region about Pittsburgh (1901). At the time of his death he had nearly completed "Qualitative Gas Reactions. "
Another result of his studies in Germany was his knowledge of the literature of chemistry. In order to help his students and others in utilizing German journals he wrote a textbook entitled Chemical German (1915). He died in 1920.
Francis Clifford Phillips as a well-known chemist, worked continuously on the improvement and standardization of methods, and many details which he established are an integral part of the accepted chemical process for the detection and determination of certain elements. Besides chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and crystallography, he was well informed in botany and bacteriology. The last-named science he utilized in his extensive work on drinking water, studies which led to fundamental improvements in the water supply of Pittsburgh. Besides, he was the author of Chemical German, a popular textbook, fundamental for students even nowadays.
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He was a member of numerous scientific societies including the American Philosophical Society (1894) and the American Chemical Society (1894).
In 1881 he married Sarah Ormsby Phillips, daughter of Ormsby Phillips, a former mayor of Allegheny. There were two children.
