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Authorised form of nameKipping; Frederic Stanley (1863 - 1949); chemist
Other forms of nameFrederick Stanley
Dates1863 - 1949
NationalityBritish
Place of birthManchester, Lancashire, England
Date of birth16 August 1863
Place of deathCriccieth, Caernarfonshire, Wales
Date of death01/05/1949
Occupationchemist
Research fieldSynthetic organic chemistry
Stereochemistry
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
Manchester grammar school; University of London; Owens College, Manchester (London external BSc); Munich (PhD); London University (DSc)
Career:
Chemist at the Manchester Gas Department (1882); demonstrator in chemistry under Perkin at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, later assistant professor of chemistry and lecturer in agricultural chemistry (1887); moved to London as chief demonstrator in the chemistry department of the Central Technical College under H. E. Armstrong, where he was also associated with W. J. Pope, M. O. Forster, and Arthur Lapworth (FRS 1910) (1900); published several papers on derivatives of camphor and worked on the stereochemistry of nitrogen; involved in the scheme for preparing some scarce synthetic drugs (1914-1918); appointed to the chair of chemistry at University College, Nottingham (1897-1936).
Awards/Medals:
Longstaff medal (1909)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1897
Age at election34
ProposerHenry Edward Armstrong; Alex Crum Brown; Francis Robert Japp; William Henry Perkin jun; William Henry Perkin; Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; Raphael Meldola
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1918
Lectures:
Bakerian 1936
RelationshipsParents: James Stanley Kipping, an official in the Manchester branch of the Bank of England, and Julia, daughter of the Manchester painter Charles Allen Duval.
Spouse: Lilian, daughter of William Thomas Holland JP, a merchant, of Bridgwater, Somerset.
Brother-in-law: Arthur Lapworth (FRS 1910) and of William Henry Perkin (FRS 1890); they married three sisters.
Children: Two sons, one of whom, Frederick Barry Kipping, chemist, and two daughters.
OtherInfoRemembered for his pioneering work on silicon polymers.
Known for coining the term silicone.
Image

Kipping F S, IM Maull 002544.jpg

SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
Altname from DSB.
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 183-219, plate, by F Challenger
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/111006963
CodeNA1899
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002545Kipping, Fredric Stanleynd
IM/002546Kipping, Fredric Stanleynd
NLB/17/565Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 November 1898
NLB/43/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Frederic Stanley Kipping, Fellow of the Royal Society31 October 1910
NLB/43/44/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Frederic Stanley Kipping, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1910
NLB/44/355Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor F [Frederic] S [Stanley] Kipping FRS 27 June 1911
NLB/44/551Copy letter from Theordore E James to Professor F [Frederick] S [Stanley] Kipling FRS 3 August 1911
NLB/56/209Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS17 December 1918
NLB/56/84Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS15 November 1918
NLB/56/156Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS; University College, Nottingham3 December 1918
NLB/60/545Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic] Stanley Kipping, FRS21 February 1921
NLB/59/532Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic] Stanley Kipping, FRS13 October 1920
NLB/69/512Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS20 May 1926
NLB/61/91Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS9 May 1921
NLB/55/702Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor Frederick Stanley] Kipping, FRS25 July 1918
NLB/63/199Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Stanley] Kipping, FRS13 July 1922
NLB/68/958Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS8 December 1925
NLB/69/155Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/68/931Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS1 December 1925
NLB/68/627Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping; University College, Nottingham[September 1925]
NLB/69/377Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS23 March 1926
NLB/72/21Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS21 January 1929
NLB/73/140Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederic Stanley] Kipping, FRS20 December 1930
EC/1897/17Kipping, Frederic Stanley: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/60/657Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederic] Stanley Kipping, FRS10 March 1921
IM/Maull/002544Kipping, Fredric Stanleynd
MC/33/58Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to [Robert] Harrion, [Royal Society]12 July 1918
MC/33/59Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, W.1.15 August 1918
MC/27/201Letter from [Frederic] Stanley Kipping, 40 Magdala Road, Nottingham, to the [Royal Society]29 December 1912
RR/W/1/43Letter from [Frederic Stanley] Kipping to [Henry] Dale, regarding a paper 'Studies in Insulin II. The Electrometric Titration of Normal, Inactivated, and Reactivated Insulin' by [Earle] A Harvey, [Frederick Oliver] Howitt, and [Edmund Brydges Rudhall] Prideaux17 October 1932
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