Hall, Charles Francis

Hall, Charles Francis, Life with the Esquimaux, Sampson... 

Charles Francis Hall s research, started when he was a high school student and continued at Oberlin College, results in a cheap process to produce aluminum and the founding of ALCOA. 

Over the years, arsenic has been blamed for the illnesses and deaths of several politicians and other celebrities. In the case of Charles Francis Hall, suspicions of arsenic poisoning by accident or murder proved true. The arsenic poisoning of US Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce was unintentional and not an attempted assassination as first suspected. In contrast, the exhumation and autopsy of US President Zachary Taylor found no evidence of arsenic poisoning. 

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