Frederick Thomas Seelye
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Frederick Thomas Seelye FRSNZ (1879–1962) was a notable New Zealand analytical chemist and lecturer. He was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1879.[1] He became an instructor of mathematics and chemistry at the Waihi School of Mines in 1902, and in 1920 he was hired by the Dominion Laboratory as the chief silicate analyst.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in 1943,[2] and Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 1944.[3]
Seelye died in Wellington, New Zealand at the age of 83, and was survived by his wife Flora Annabella Nicholson, two sons and a daughter.[2]