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David Ford McFarland (1878-1955)
David Ford McFarland was born in Ohio in 1878. He moved with his family to Lawrence, Kansas, where
he attended public schools. In 1900, he received an A.B. degree in chemistry at The University of
Kansas and immediately joined the chemistry department. During this period, he acquired an A.M. degree
at Kansas in 1901, an M.S. degree at Yale in 1903, and a Ph.D. at Yale in 1909. He was also chemist and
geologist with the University Geological Survey of Kansas from 1899 to 1908. In 1910, McFarland moved to the University of Illinois, where he was assistant professor and associate
professor of applied chemistry and a chemist and metallographist in the Engineering Experiment Station.
While in Illinois, he focused his study on metallurgy and industrial chemistry. From 1920 until his
retirement in 1945, McFarland was professor and head of the Department of Metallurgy at The Pennsylvania
State University.
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Helium production in the United States
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David Ford McFarland |
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