Background
Gooch, Frank Austin was born on May 2, 1852 in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joshua Goodale and Sarah Gates (Coolidge) Gooch.
Gooch, Frank Austin was born on May 2, 1852 in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joshua Goodale and Sarah Gates (Coolidge) Gooch.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1872, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, 1877. Honorary Master of Arts, Yale, 1887.
Mistress John Downes Whiting). Assistant in chemical laboratory under Professor Josiah P. Cooke until 1875. Studied with Professor Wolcott Gibbs, and in Europe until 1878.
Engaged in analytical work at Newport for United States 10th Census, 1879-1881.
Chemist on Northern Transcontinental Survey, 1881-1884, and United States Geological Survey, 1884-1886. Professor of chemistry, Yale, 1885-1918, and director Kent Chemical Laboratory.
Emeritus. Investigator of inorganic and analytical chemistry.
Author: Analyses of Waters of the Yellowstone Park (with J. East. Whitfield), 1888. Research Papers from the Kent Chemical Laboratory of Yale University (2 volumes), 1901.
Outlines of Inorganic Chemistry (with C. F. Walker), 1905. Laboratory Experiments (with C. F. Walker), 1905.
Outlines of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with P. East. Browning), 1906.
Methods in Chemical Analysis, 1912. Representative Procedures in Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 1915. Home: New Haven, Connecticut
Married Sarah Elisabeth Wyman, August 12, 1880.