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FRANCIS ROBERT JAPP was born in Dundee on February 8, 1848, his father being the minister of the Catholic Apostolic Church in that city. His early academic training gave little indication of his ultimate career, for after graduating in arts at the University of St. Andrews he entered the University of Edinburgh as a student of law in 1868. Ill-health, unfortunately, soon^ led to an interruption of these studies and to a fairly long period of foreign travel and residence, mostly in Germany, and it was not until the autumn of 1873 that Japp definitely settled down to the study of chemistry in Bunsen's laboratory at Heidelberg. He completed his curriculum at that university by graduating as doctor of philosophy in 1876, and afterwards proceeded to Bonn, whither the fame of Kekulé attracted chemical pilgrims from all parts of Europe. In his Kekulé Memorial Lecture, delivered before the Chemical Society in 1898, Japp paid eloquent tribute to the inspiring genius of this great chemist. While in the Bonn laboratory, Japp worked more especially under Schultz and Anschütz, and papers were published jointly with each of these investigators.
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P., J. Prof. F. R. Japp, F.R.S.. Nature 116, 510 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116510a0
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