Petrus Jacobus Kipp

Petrus Jacobus Kipp (born March 5, 1808 in Utrecht , † February 3, 1864 in Delft ) was a Dutch pharmacist , chemist and instrument maker.

Kipp completed his pharmacy exam in Utrecht in 1829 and from 1830 ran a pharmacy at Oude Delft 162 in Delft. Since he couldn't get by as a pharmacist on his own, he began to import scientific instruments and trade in chemicals. His instrument trade took off after the publication of a catalog in 1850 and until the end of the 19th century the company, which was continued by his sons, also built its own instruments. In 1840 he was appointed to the circle of medical advisors for the city of Delft and was entrusted with chemical analyzes, among other things, of drinking water and lamp oil for street lighting. After his friend Carel Frederik Donnadieu became professor of chemistry at the newly founded Delft Polytechnic in 1843, he also translated chemistry books from German for the university.

His best-known invention is the Kipp apparatus , a glass apparatus in which the gases can be produced in doses on a laboratory scale by reacting a solid with a liquid . He developed it because he was dissatisfied with the apparatus at the time for generating hydrogen gas for the Marsh sample . The manufacturer of Kipp's prototype was the German glassblower Heinrich Geißler. In 1844 Kipp published his apparatus, the oldest surviving copy of which can be seen in the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden.

Kipp's apparatus

In 1842 he was one of the founders of the Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter Bevordering der Pharmacy.

He had been married to Hanna Petronella Regina Heijligers (1811–1874) since 1830 and had ten children. His sons continued to run his pharmacy, which still exists in Delft as WA Kipp , and his company. The instrument building company Kipp & Zonen and the trading company Salm and Kipp still exist in Delft today.

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↑ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, pp. 235–236, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
↑ Kipp, Tijdschrift voor Handel en Nijverheid, Volume 1, 1844, pp. 100-102, 229-230.

personal data
SURNAME	Kipp, Petrus Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch pharmacist, chemist and instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH	February 3, 1864
Place of death	Delft

[Pötsch-1] Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, pp. 235–236, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .

[2] Kipp, Tijdschrift voor Handel en Nijverheid, Volume 1, 1844, pp. 100-102, 229-230.