Frederic Stanley Kipping
Frederic Stanley Kipping (born August 16, 1863 in Upper Broughton , Manchester , † May 1, 1949 in North Wales ) was an English chemist who founded silicone chemistry.
He was the eldest son of James Stanley and Julia Kipping and had two brothers and four sisters. His father's friend and neighbor J. Carter Bell aroused his interest in chemistry, which he studied in Manchester and Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the laboratories of Adolf von Baeyer . In 1890 he was first chief demonstrator at the City and Guilds of London Institute and from 1897 to 1936 he was professor of chemistry at University College Nottingham, later the University of Nottingham .
He investigated optically active camphor derivatives and nitrogen compounds. In 1894 he and his colleague William Henry Perkin wrote a standard work on organic chemistry.
Since 1899 he was occupied with organic silicon compounds , which he synthesized with the help of the newly discovered Grignard compounds . Around 1904 he received organosiloxanes with the empirical formula, which he called silicones (silico-ketones) in analogy to the ketones . The first of these substances were sticky mixtures, for which Kipping foreseen no applications. He thought they were chemical curiosities and when he retired said that important advances in this area were not very realistic. It wasn't until the 1940s that the technical benefit of silicone was recognized. At General Electric and Dow Corning, for example, they recognized that silicones were very suitable as insulating and lubricating agents.
The fact that William Henry Perkin junior , Frederic Stanley Kipping and Arthur Lapworth sisters married (Perkin Mina Holland, Kipping Lilian and Lapworth Kathleen Holland) is the subject of a novel-like book by Eugene G. Rochow .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Derek Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 228
- ↑ Rochow, Eduard Krahé: The Holland Sisters: Their influence on the success of Their husbands Perkin, Kipping and Lapworth, Springer 2001
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| SURNAME | Kipping, Frederic Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Upper Broughton , Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1949 |
| Place of death | North Wales |