Jewett, Frank

Frank Fanning Jewett, 1844-1926. Research assistant at Harvard University under Woleott Gibbs. Professor of chemistry at the Imperial University of Japan Professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Oberlin College. His account of Wohler s researches on aluminum inspired Charles M. Hall to search for a commercial process for preparing the metal. 

Born in Thompson, Oregon, on December 6, 1863, Charles Martin Hall was interested in minerals since the age of twelve. While enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio, Hall took a class from distinguished professor Frank Fanning Jewett, who had a sample of the precious metal to show the class. After a stirring lecture on the topic, he finished with, Any person who discovers a process by which aluminum can be made on a commercial scale will bless humanity and make a fortune for himself. Inspired by such a win-win challenge, Hall reportedly said, I m going for that metal. ... 

In Washington after the invasion of Poland the Carnegie president gathered with a group of fellow science administrators—Frank Jewett, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the National Academy of Sciences James Bryant Conant, the young president of Harvard, a distin-... 

Thus at the outset of the U.S. atomic energy program scientists were summarily denied a voice in deciding the political and military uses of the weapons they were proposing to build. Bush accepted the usurpation happily. To him it was simply a matter of who would run the show. It left him on top and inside and he put it to use immediately to shoulder the physics community into line. Within hours, as he wrote Frank Jewett in November, he had emphasized to Arthur Compton and his people the fact that they are asked to report upon the techniques, and that consideration of general policy has not been turned over to them as a subject. ... 

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