Frank Austin Gooch

Frank Austin Gooch (1852 – 1929) was an American chemist and engineer.

He was born to Joshua G. & Sarah Gates (Coolidge) Gooch in Watertown, Massachusetts.

On his mother's side of the family, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.

Gooch was a professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1885 to 1918.

He devised or perfected a large number of analytical processes and methods, including: He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.