(24 Oct. 1883-21 Nov. 1974), scientist. (Frank MacDougall, F. H. MacDougall, Frank H. MacDougall) Born in Maxville, GC. Parents: Duncan Peter MacDougall and his wife Janet McEwen. He attended Maxville primary school and Alexandria High School. His first two degrees were from Queen’s University, B. A. 1902 and M. A. 1903. In 1905 he went to Germany to study. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1907. McDougall taught at Texas A & M (Texas Agriculture and Mining College) 1907-1912, and at Calgary College, Canada, 1912-1915. At the University of Minnesota he taught chemistry 1915-1952. Beginning there as instructor, rhe rose to full professor and served as head of his division; in retirement, he had the title of Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry.

     The author of various scientific articles in his field, he was also the joint author of two monographs on silver acetate (1945, 1947). He was the author of the well known textbooks Thermodynamics and Chemistry (New York, Wiley, 1921, with editions to 1948), and Physical Chemistry (1st edn, New York, Macmillan, 1943; 3rd edn, 1952, pp. xi, 750) Naturalization as an American citizen came in 1922. In his final years, he lived in Rhode Island and Pittsburgh, Penn. He was married (1) in 1908 to Frances Aborn (three children, two surviving him), and (2) in 1932 to Anne V. Reichmann (one child) His son by his first marriage, Duncan Peck MacDougall (b. 1909) was, in the years before his retirement, manager of nuclear weapons programs and associate director at the National Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

     Frank MacDougall’s interests included classical Greek language and literature, mathematics and symphonic music. He published an article in the American Scientist of Jan. 1943 on “A Liberal Education.” The tone of the article is stern, elitist and even authoritarian. He stated there , “I consider the thesis that all men are created equal to be thoroughly vicious.” When he was a student at Queen’s, MacDougall prepared a valuable 20-page history of the MacDougalls and other pioneer families of the Maxville area. Later updated by his sister Edith, and never published in its own right, it was one of the sources used in the publication of the work designated in the notes to the present dictionary as Campbell, Tannis, & Stewart, MacDougalls.

Campbell, Tannis, & Stewart, MacDougalls, v, 1, 504, 584-587 (with portrait), 725, also 378-381 * Maxville (1991) , 631, 665 * Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6: 1974-1976 p. 257 * Morgan (1912) 687 * The Glengarry News recorded his two graduations from Queen’s, his departure for Germany, and his appointment at Calgary, GN 2 & 9 May &, 3 Oct. 1902, 1 May 1903, 31 March & 18 Aug. 1905, 5 July 1912 * Reyerson and O. Johnson, “Professor MacDougall Retires,” Minnesota Chemist, 4:4 (Sept.-Oct. 1952), 13 (with fine portrait): biog., tribute * information from Archives, University of Minnesota