Japp, Francis Robert ♂

Education

Student United College 1864-1865 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1865-1866 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2 1866-1867 M. Phil.; Eng. Lit.; Math. 2 1867-1868 N. Phil. Madras bursar, 1864, 1865. M.A. 23.4.1868. LL.D. 18.4.1888.

Birth/childhood

Born 8.2.1848 youngest son of James Japp, Minister of Catholic Apostolic Church in Dundee.

Attended Madras College, St Andrews.

Career

Also at the Universities of Edinburgh, Bonn and Heidelberg [Edinburgh University, Bonn University, Heidelberg University] - PhD Heidelberg.

Went to Edinburgh in 1868 as a law student, but had to give up through ill health. Studied abroad, particularly chemistry at Heidelberg.

Professor of Chemistry at Aberdeen University 1890-1914. [University professor, chemist ]

Discovered the Japp-Klingemann reaction.

Publications

Researches in Organic Chemistry carried out in the University of Aberdeen, by Francis Robert Japp [and others]. (Aberdeen: Printed for the University, 1905)

Death

Died 1.8.1925.

Sources

• UYUC400:15.12.1864, 16.11.1865
• Who was Who
• Aberdeen University Review 2 1914-15 p132f (portrait)
• Francis Robert Japp, in Wikipedia.