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Fred C. Anson (born February 17, 1933) is an American electrochemist who works at Caltech (California Institute of Technology) as a professor and researcher. He grew up in California in a small town and received his inspiration to attend Caltech from his high school physics teacher.9 He is known mostly for his work in kinetics and catalysis of electrode reactions, but has many subsections of research1. He is highly educated and received a scholarship from the Los Angeles Times along with being offered a merit scholarship at Caltech. He attended Caltech for his undergraduate years before attending Harvard for graduate school and returning to Caltech, to teach.9

Home life and family
Fred C. Anson was born on February 17, 1933, California, United States. His hometown was Wilmar, a small town in Los Angeles that has since been renamed.3 (South San Gabriel). He lived in the same house his whole childhood until university at Caltech. He lived with his parents, sister and brother. His father was a worker for the Dupont Paint Company and his mother sold products at Rasco’s Department Store. When his parents were working, his grandmother lived near enough that she could come over and take care of them. His parents, who had both lived in California their whole lives, weren’t particularly wealthy so the three children lived modestly. Anson would walk or bike to school until he finally got a car in high school. He did the paper routes in his neighborhood and got good grades in school.9

Education
Fred C. Anson’s hometown was small enough that all the schools in the area were within walking, or biking distance. Anson attended a grammar school a few blocks from their house until grade six. In sixth grade, he transferred to John Garvey Junior High School which led up to the eighth grade. Anson’s secondary school was Alhambra High School. He received his inspiration to attend Caltech from his high school physics teacher J.B Forster. Anson was then rewarded a 4-year scholarship from the Los Angeles Times to go to Caltech, which covered the six-hundred-dollar tuition. During his time at Caltech, he got a BS in chemistry under the mentorship of Ernest H. Swift. Anson graduated from Caltech in 1954, then traveled to Harvard for graduate school. There, he received his doctoral degree (or PhD) under the mentorship of James J. Lingane in the year of 1957.9

Early career
The year that Fred C. Anson graduated from Harvard, he returned to Caltech to teach. He became an instructor in the chemistry division. In 1958 he became an assistant professor, and then in 1962 he became an associate professor. He finally became a full professor at Caltech in 1968. In reward for his long-time work, he became chairman in the Division of chemistry and chemical engineering. That position lasted from 19894 until 1994.3

Current career
Fred C. Anson’s whole career has been spent at Caltech. His research focuses on kinetics, attachments of reactants, and catalysts of electroreduction of dioxygen to water. In addition to that, it focuses on mechanisms of electrode processes, polymers and catalysts of electrode surfaces. Finally, he also researches absorption and catalysis at electrodes, and electrochemistry of sheteropolymetallates. It can mostly be categorized as chemistry or electrochemistry.4

Teaching
Fred C. Anson taught many men and women in his time at Caltech. Some of these include William England Palke who was his research assistant in 1962, then Harry B. Mark Jr who acted as his post-doc from 1962-1963, followed by Harry was Arthur Thornton Hubbard who became his graduate student in 1967. Some additional people he mentored were M.G Finn in 1980, Bruce Parkinson from 1973-1977, David N. Blauch from 1986-1991, Zenghi Liu in 1992, Theodore Kuwana in 1960, Michael John Weaver from 1972-1975, Thomas F. Guarr from 1984-1986, Alexander Kuhn from 1975-1976, Haesik Yang from 1997-1998 and Taek Dong Chung from 1998-2000.7

Findings
Fred C. Anson, along with Chunnian Shi and Beat Steiger developed a theory on novel multinuclear catalysts for electroreduction of dioxygen directly to water. They had an article published in 1997 from the Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratories, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.10