• Frank Harold Spedding (22 October 1902 – 15 December 1984) was a Canadian-American chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction...
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    John Spedding (born Peter Robinson, 17 June 1944) is an English guitarist and record producer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Spedding is best...
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  • Spedding is a surname, and may refer to: Alison Spedding (born 1962), British anthropologist and fantasy author Charlie Spedding (born 1952), long-distance...
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  • metals and other materials critical to US energy security. In 1942, Frank Spedding of Iowa State College, an expert in the chemistry of rare-earth elements...
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    raised in Ames Lyle Goodhue, scientist, lived and studied here 1925–1934 Frank Spedding, chemist, creator of the Ames Process during the Manhattan Project Dan...
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    forms. At the time, there was a limited source of pure uranium metal; Frank Spedding of Iowa State University was able to produce only two short tons. Three...
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    similar chemical and physical properties. Using methods developed by Frank Spedding in the 1940s, ion-exchange processes were formerly the only practical...
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  • Michael Caine as Billy "Shiner" Simpson Martin Landau as Frank Spedding Frances Barber as Georgie Frank Harper as Jeff "Stoney" Stone Andy Serkis as Mel Matthew...
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  • build the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was founded by Frank Spedding from Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa as an offshoot of the Metallurgical...
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    Torello 2000 Ready to Rumble Sal Bandini Very Mean Men Mr. White Shiner Frank Spedding 2001 The Majestic Harry Trimble 2003 Hollywood Homicide Jerry Duran...
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    in large quantities. This application was developed in the 1940s by Frank Spedding. Subsequently, solvent extraction has mostly supplanted use of ion-exchange...
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    of the Manhattan Project at Ames Laboratory under the direction of Frank Spedding. It is sometimes called the Ames process. Copper thermite is used for...
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    nuclear chain reaction was produced at Iowa State under the direction of Frank Spedding and Harley Wilhelm. The Ames Project received the Army/Navy E Award...
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  • economist; professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego Frank Spedding (22 October 1902 – 15 December 1984), Canadian-American chemist; expert...
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    Academy of Music and Drama, 150th Celebration, by Grace Matchett and Frank Spedding, published in 1997 "Extension of premises". The Glasgow Herald. 9 June...
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    have very similar chemical and physical properties. During the 1940s, Frank Spedding and others in the United States (during the Manhattan Project) developed...
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    Theodore Petry, David P. Rudolph, Leon Sayvetz, Leo Seren, Louis Slotin, Frank Spedding, William J. Sturm, Leo Szilard, Albert Wattenberg, Richard J. Watts...
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  • Farrington Daniels, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John R. Ruhoff, G. T. Seaborg, Frank Spedding, Charles A. Thomas, and Walter Zinn. The report itself was written largely...
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    percent of Alpha product and 5.4 percent of Beta product was lost. Frank Spedding from the Manhattan Project's Ames Laboratory and Philip Baxter from...
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    pure form until after the development of ion exchange techniques by Frank Spedding at Iowa State University in the early 1950s. Due to its role in permanent...
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    from Bayan Obo, China, with an even "richer" europium content of 0.2%. Frank Spedding, celebrated for his development of the ion-exchange technology that...
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  • Ames process was used on August 3, 1942, by a group of chemists led by Frank Spedding and Harley Wilhelm at the Ames Laboratory as part of the Manhattan Project...
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    Metallurgical Laboratory's Chemistry Division was initially headed by Frank Spedding, but he preferred hands on work to administration. Compton then turned...
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    three physics groups, headed by Allison, Fermi and Martin D. Whitaker. Frank Spedding was in charge of the Chemistry Division. He was later succeeded by Herbert...
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    the earliest female chemistry professors at ISU, teaching 1908–1955 Frank Spedding, noted Ames Laboratory chemist who developed the Ames Process as a part...
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    Spiritualists' National Union. In 1974 the parapsychologists Barrie Colvin and Frank Spedding attended a séance with Higginson and claimed that the ectoplasmic materialization...
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    uranium pellets. At the time, there was a limited source of pure uranium. Frank Spedding of Iowa State University was able to produce only two short tons of...
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  • Award and the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Frank Spedding Award for Excellence in the Science and Technology of Rare Earths, the...
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    milligram. He recruited Richard D. Baker, a chemist who had worked with Spedding, and together they adapted the Ames Process for use at the Los Alamos laboratory...
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  • Herbert S. Gutowsky 1965 John H. Van Vleck 1936 John Gamble Kirkwood 1933 Frank Spedding 1932 Oscar K. Rice [de] 1931 Linus Pauling List of physics awards List...
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