Charles Frederick CrossFRS[1] (11 December 1855 – 15 April 1935) was a Britishchemist.[2]
Born inBrentford,Middlesex, his father,Charles James Cross (14 October 1827 - 19 November 1910), was a schoolmaster turned soap manufacturer. After graduating fromKing's College London, he went toZurich Polytechnic and then, with his future partner,Edward John Bevan, toOwens College, Manchester.
Cross who was interested incellulose technology and Bevan who had been a chemist at the Scottish papermaking firm of Alexander Cowan & Co. went into partnership in 1885 and set up as analytical and consulting chemists in New Court, Lincoln's Inn in London.
In 1888 they published what was to become a standard work on papermaking. In 1892, together with another partner,Clayton Beadle they took out a patent forViscose which became the basis for theviscose,rayon andcellophane industries. In 1894 Cross and Bevan took out a patent for the manufacture of celluloseacetate - this was to become the industrial process for its manufacture.
Cross was a recipient of thePerkin Medal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists. He was awarded theJohn Scott Medal in 1895. He died in 1935.
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