Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

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Prior to entering the federal service, Clarke taught chemistry and geochemistry at Howard University (1873–1874) and the University of Cincinnati (1874–1883). In 1874, Frank W. Clarke became spouse to Mary P. Olmstead of Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at Cincinnati, he made extensive forays into Appalachia to study its geology and form. Clarkes' first academic work was entitled On a new process in mineral analysis (March 1868). It was published at age 20 and during the year he went on to serve as an instructor in Chemistry at the new Cornell University. Even after he left academia, his bookish qualities were well known. He would time his Cosmos Club library visits to coincide with the librarians' opening of the periodical mail and was keen on being the first to know, rather than the one to receive, the news.

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• Chevalier, Legion of Honor;
• Member, National Academy of Sciences;
• The Wilde Medal, Council of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society;
• The F.W. Clarke Award of the Geochemical Society is named after him;
• The mineral Clarkeite was named after him;
• On the proposal of the Russian geochemist Alexander Fersman, the abundances of chemical elements in the Earth's crust, as well as in other major geochemical Earth systems (hydrosphere, atmosphere, pedosphere, in the main types of rocks, etc.) are called in Russian "the Clarkes" ("кларки").
• Inaugural chairman of the International Committee of Atomic Weights
• In 1903, the only American (and Unitarian) ever invited to deliver a Memorial Address before The Chemical Society.