Frederick Kipping

Frederic Stanley Kipping ( born August 16, 1863 in Upper Broughton, Manchester, † May 1, 1949 in North Wales ) was an English chemist who founded the silicone chemistry.

He was the eldest son of James Stanley Kipping and Julia and had two brothers and four sisters. His father's friend and neighbor J. Carter Bell sparked his interest in chemistry, which he studied in Manchester and Germany at the Ludwig -Maximilians -Universität München in the labs by Adolf von Baeyer. It was founded in 1890 initially Chefdemonstrator at the City and Guilds of London Institute and from 1897 to 1936 he was at University College Nottingham, later the University of Nottingham, Professor of Chemistry.

He examined optically active camphor derivatives and nitrogen compounds. In 1894 he co-wrote with his colleague William Henry Perkin, a standard work on organic chemistry.

Since 1899 he worked on organic silicon compounds, which he synthesized with the help of the newly discovered Grignard compounds. To 1904, he received Organosiloxanes the empirical formula, which he called, in analogy to the ketones silicones ( Silico - ketones). The first of these substances were sticky concoctions, foresaw no applications for the Kipping. He held it for chemical curiosities. Only in the 1930s, the technical benefits of silicone was detected.