| Authorised form of name | Japp; Francis Robert (1848 - 1925) |
| Dates | 1848 - 1925 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 08 February 1848 |
| Date of death | 01/08/1925 |
| Activity | Education:
St Andrews University. MA. PhD (1875, Berlin)
Career:
Worked in Bunsen's laboratory, Berlin; worked with Kekule in Bonn; returned to England (1878); Lecturer in Chemistry, later Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Normal School of Science, South Kensington; Professor of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen (1890); retired (1914); was a good musician
Memberships:
FIC; FCS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1885 |
| Relationships | Son of James Japp, minister of the Catholic Apostolic Church, Dundee; married Elizabeth, daughter of F Tegetmeyer of Kelbra-Kyffhauser, Germany |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1928 vol 118 pp iii-vi, plate, signed by J F T |
| Code | NA6686 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/3/341 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Francis Robert Japp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 May 1889 |
| NLB/3/734 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 27 September 1889 |
| NLB/3/1085 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Francis Robert Japp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 January 1890 |
| NLB/11/3 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Francis Robert Japp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 April 1895 |
| NLB/18/337 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 February 1899 |
| NLB/23/2/340 | Copy letter sent from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Robert Japp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 May 1903 |
| NLB/23/2/347 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Professor Dr R Anschutz, Chemisches Institut, Bonn | 8 June 1903 |
| NLB/54/566 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 21 June 1917 |
| NLB/68/842 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Irvine, FRS | 11 November 1925 |
| NLB/71/190 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. A. Findlay | 6 February 1928 |
| NLB/68/768 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Arthur] Lapworth, FRS | 30 October 1925 |
| NLB/70/737 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Jocelyn Field] Thorpe, CBE, FRS | 15 July 1927 |
| EC/1885/11 | Japp, Francis Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/5/140 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Francis Robert Japp, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 April 1891 |
| RR/14/20 | Referee's report by Francis Robert Japp, on a paper 'The pharmacology of aconitine, diacetyl-aconitine, benzaconine, and aconine, considered in relation to their chemical constitution' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland Dunstan | 17 March 1898 |
| RR/14/183 | Referee's report by Francis Robert Japp, on a paper 'On the action of heat on the absorption-spectra an chemical constitution of saline substances. Part III' by Walter Noel Hartley | 20 November 1899 |