Frank Stuart Spring (5 September 1907 – 1 March 1997) was a British organic chemist.
[1] He was born in Great Crosby, Lancashire on 5 September 1907, the fifth of six children of John Spring.
His father, a master mariner, was killed with his crew of 20 when his ship the Rhineland hit a German mine in the North Sea.
In 1946 he moved to the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow as Professor of Chemistry.
His proposers for the latter were James Pickering Kendall, Neil Campbell, Mowbray Ritchie, Thomas Robert Bolam, and Sir Edmund Hirst.