Frank C. Whitmore

Frank Clifford Whitmore (October 1, 1887 – June 24, 1947), nicknamed "Rocky", was a prominent chemist who submitted significant evidence for the existence of carbocation mechanisms in organic chemistry.

For his son, the American geologist, see Frank C. Whitmore Jr.

He was born in 1887 in the town of North Attleborough, Massachusetts.

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