Kathryn Grove Shipp (1904 – October 14, 1977) was an American organic chemist, a specialist in explosives, affiliated with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1957 to 1970.

She graduated from Madera High School in 1921 and from Mills College in 1925, where she studied under Aurelia Henry Reinhardt.

[4] She completed her doctorate in organic chemistry at Yale University in 1930,[5][6] with a postdoctoral year of further studies at Oxford on a National Research Council fellowship.

[6][1] In 1964, she developed hexanitrostilbene (HNS), a vacuum-tolerant, heat-insensitive explosive used for seismic experiments on the moon, during the Apollo program.

[12] That same year, Mills College presented Shipp with an honorary Doctor of Law degree.