Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson, OM, PRS,FRSE (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was an English organic chemist and Nobel laureate ecognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947, he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.
Born at Rufford Farm, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire,[3] Robinson went to school at the Chesterfield Grammar School, the private Fulneck School and the University of Manchester. In 1907 he was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to continue his research at the Universityof Manchester. He was appointed as the first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney in 1912. He was the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University from 1930 and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Robinson Close in the Science Area at Oxford is named after him,as is the Robert Robinson Laboratory at the University of Liverpool.
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