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Kathryn Grove Shipp

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Shipp held at least six patents, on chemicals or processes of preparing chemicals, including "Preparation of 2, 4, 6-trinitrobenzyl halides" (1966), hexanitrostilbene (1970) and polynitrobenzophenone (1971, with her colleague Lloyd A. Kaplan).
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Kathryn Grove married fellow chemist Joseph Harrel Shipp in 1932. They had four children together before they divorced. She died from a heart attack on October 14, 1977, aged 73 years, in
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in 1925. She left paid employment for 26 years to raise her children, before returning to laboratory chemistry in 1957, when she joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in
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fellowship. While at Yale, she was the first woman graduate student to hold the Dupont Fellowship in Chemistry.
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in 1962. In 1967, she was one of the six recipients of the Federal Woman's Award, presented by
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from 1957 to 1970. In 1967, she was one of the six recipients of the Federal Woman's Award.
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967
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Kathryn Grove Shipp, from a 1967 publication of the Department of the Navy.
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in 1930, with a postdoctoral year of further studies at
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American organic chemist, specialising in explosives
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Federal Woman's Award (1967), patents on explosives
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Best Books on. pp. 288–290. 470:Field, Simon Quellen (2017-07-01). 358:Hutchinson, Louise (May 25, 1967). 297:"Miss Kathryn Grove Receives Honor" 167:Meritorious Civilian Service Award 14: 580:– via NewspaperArchive.com. 497:B, Johnson, Lyndon (1968-01-01). 117:in 1925, where she studied under 101:Kathryn Elmira Grove was born in 715: 703: 539:"Kathryn Shipp Honored at Mills" 768:People from Madera, California 753:20th-century American chemists 678:. October 26, 1977. p. 51 564:Reed, Elaine (June 12, 1967). 303:. February 27, 1925. p. 2 1: 436:. January 10, 1967. p. 3 222:. August 13, 1970. p. 10 783:Scientists from Pennsylvania 430:"New Explosive Set for Moon" 332:. January 6, 1967. p. 3 686:– via Newspapers.com. 660:– via Newspapers.com. 652:. June 27, 1932. p. 10 444:– via Newspapers.com. 410:. April 10, 1930. p. 2 374:– via Newspapers.com. 360:"About Women in Washington" 274:. April 14, 1958. p. 1 248:. 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Johnson 151:hexanitrostilbene 113:in 1921 and from 84: 83: 815: 720: 719: 718: 708: 707: 706: 699: 688: 687: 685: 683: 676:The News Journal 668: 662: 661: 659: 657: 650:The News Journal 642: 636: 630: 624: 618: 612: 606: 600: 599: 598:: 9. 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Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Annandale, Pennsylvania
Madera, California
Madera High School
Mills College
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
Yale University
Oxford
National Research Council
Vassar College
White Oak, Maryland
hexanitrostilbene
Apollo program
Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tiburon, California





"She Helped Apollo Mission"
"W. S. Conner, Longtime Maderan, Dies At Age 93"
"Funeral Today For Mrs. Conner Who Died Friday"


"Miss Kathryn Grove Receives Honor"

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