Spedding, Frank

Spedding, Frank Harold, Jr., and Daane, Adrian Hill, eds. (1961). The Rare Earths. New York Wiley. 

Abraham F. Joffe, a Soviet physicist who had met Spedding in Berkeley and knew he was in England, invited him to lecture in Leningrad, Moscow and Kharkov at the expense of the Russian government. With some reservations the Speddings accepted and did travel to the Soviet Union. Frank lectured at Leningrad but for unknown reasons never went to the other cities. 

Frank H. Spedding Prize - named after F.H. Spedding and awarded to scientists at the Rare Earth Research Conferences in recognition of distinguished contributions in the field of rare earth science and/or technology. First presented in 1979 at the 14th Conference,... 

First Frank H. Spedding Prize awarded at the Fourteenth ... 

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Professor Frank H. Spedding, Iowa State University, who died on December 15, 1984 at the age of 82. It is especially appropriate to the subject of this paper because a fair fraction of his many scientific endeavors was devoted to the study of the rare earth metals—especially their preparation, properties and alloying behavior of the intra rare earth binary alloys. His contributions (along with his many collaborators) in this area include the first to prepare metallic Sm metal the determination of its unique crystal structure the discovery of the Sm-type structure in an intermediate alloy phase formed by a light and a heavy lanthanide the first to ascertain that the crystal structure of the high temperature phase was bcc and the first to show that there is no detectable separation between liquidus and solidus (< 1°C) in binary alloy systems of the lanthanide metals that have atomic numbers within four of each other. 

Frank H. Spedding Award Recipient and Lecturer, Sponsored by Rhdne-Poulenc. Presented at the 20th Rare Earth Research Conference, Monterey, California... 

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