Kipping, Frederick

Robert West was bom in New Jersey and educated at Cornell University (B.A.) and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.). For the past 45 years he has been a faculty member in the chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin, where he is now E. G. Rochow Professor and Director of the Organosilicon Research Center. His many awards include the Frederick Stanley Kipping Award, the Wacker silicone prize, the Alexander von Humboldt Award, and the main group chemistry medal. He has published more than 600 scientific papers, mostly in the area of silicon chemistry. Major discoveries in his laboratories include the first soluble polysilanes (1978), the silicon-silicon double bond (1981), the first stable silylenes (1994), and electrically conducting organosilanes for high energy density batteries (2000). He is an airplane pilot and a mountaineer, with numerous first ascents in Canada and Alaska. 

Challenger, F. (1950). Frederick Stanley Kipping, 1863-1949. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 7 182—219. 

British chemist Frederick Kipping (1863-1949) discovers silicone plastics. 

Silicone (Frederick Stanley Kipping) English chemist Kipping studies the organic compounds of silicon and coins the term silicone. ... 

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