Spedding, F. H. (Frank Harold), 1902-

Spedding (1902-1984). Director of the physical chemistry department and a professor of chemistry, physics, and metallurgy at Iowa State University. During World War II, Spedding and his staff in Ames, Iowa produced over two million pounds of uranium for the Manhattan Project. After the war, he founded the Institute for Atomic Research and, later in 1947, the Ames Laboratory of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, becoming its first director.

From the description of Papers of F. H. Spedding, 1924-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306201

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