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Francis Arthur Freeth
(2 Jan 1884 - 15 Jul 1970)
British industrial chemist who was chief chemist to the firm of Brunner, Mond and Co. from 1908. During World War I he solved the problem of large-scale production of ammonium nitrate for explosives, and met Britain's vital need.
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Science Quotes by Francis Arthur Freeth (3 quotes)
I am Freeth, and I have come to apply the phase-rule to the ammonia-soda process.
First words on joining the Brunner-Mond Company in 1907.
First words on joining the Brunner-Mond Company in 1907.
— Francis Arthur Freeth
W. F. L. Dick, A Hundred Years of Alkali in Cheshire (1973), 38.
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I am told that someone accused me of saying that if the Ministry of Fuel and Power were boring for coal and they went through a layer of gold nine feet thick they would throw it away because they wouldn't know what to do with it, Sir, I only said four feet thick.
— Francis Arthur Freeth
Remark while accepting a presentation upon his retirement from I.C.I. As quoted by Peter Allen in obituary, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Nov 1976), 22, 117.
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?
[Acerbic comment about directors of Brunner Mond, where he worked.]
[Acerbic comment about directors of Brunner Mond, where he worked.]
— Francis Arthur Freeth
As quoted by Peter Allen in obituary, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Nov 1976), 22, 116.
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- 2 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Freeth's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
