| Authorised form of name | Robinson; Sir; Robert (1886 - 1975); chemist |
| Dates | 1886 - 1975 |
| Date of birth | 13 September 1886 |
| Date of death | 08/02/1975 |
| Activity | Education:
DSc
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1947
Honours:
Kt 1939; OM 1949 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/05/1920 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
PRS 1945-1950; VP 1944-1945
Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1930; Royal Medal 1932; Copley Medal 1942
Lectures:
Bakerian 1930 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
AssocMaterial:
CSAC 94/5/83. Papers deposited in the Royal Society Library
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 415-527, plate, by Lord Todd and J W Cornforth
References:
Arthur J Birch, 'Investigating a Scientific Legend: the Tropinone Synthesis of Sir Robert Robinson, FRS' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 277-296, plate
R L M Synge, 'How the Robinsons Nearly Invented Partition Chromatography in 1934' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 309-311
Stephen F Mason, review of Trevor I Williams, Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 281-284
C W Shoppee, 'The Sign of the Electron-Releasing Effect of the Methyl Group' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 p 297
Rose Scott-Moncrieff, 'The Classical Period in Chemical Genetics. Recollections of Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Robert and Gertrude Robinson and J B S Haldane' in NR 1981-82 vol 36 pp 125-154
Lord Todd, 'Address at the Memorial Service for Sir Robert Robinson, OM, FRS, at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 1975' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 1-3
J S Rowlinson, 'The war time work of Hinshelwood and his colleagues' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 161-175 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/67265095 |
| Royal Society code | NA8276 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1920/14 | Robinson, Sir Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000037 | Group photograph of Officers of the Royal Society 1945-50 | c 1945-50 |
| IM/005409 | Lowry, Thomas Martin | 1993 |
| IM/GA/WG/9449 | Presidents 1940-1970 | nd |
| HWT/33/5 | H W Thompson's personal correspondence as Foreign Secretary | 1968 |
| P/0109 | Portrait of Robinson, Sir Robert | 1950 |
| PB/1/33/3/6 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| HWT/41/1/17/11 | Correspondence and papers from H W Thompson's term as President of IUPAC | October 1974 |
| IM/003857 | Robinson, Sir Robert | 1951 |
| IM/003859 | Robinson, Sir Robert | nd |
| IM/003860 | Robinson, Sir Robert | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/2130 | Robinson, Sir Robert | 1946 |
| MDA/A/12 | Correspondence of Robert Robinson | 1946-1947 |
| MDA/A/13 | Correspondence of Robert Robinson | 1948-1950 |
| MS/922/1 | Lecture notes of Robert Robinson | 1932 |
| RR/40/9 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Phlorizin' by E A Moelwyn-Hughes | March 1930 |
| NLB/59/148 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Robinson, FRS | 21 July 1920 |
| RR/39/78 | Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'The variation of the dielectric constants of some organic liquids with frequency in the range 1 to 103 Kilocycles' by R Winstanley Lunt and M A Govinda Rau | [1929] |
| RR/63/56 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Reversible oxidation of chlorophyll' by E Rabinowitch and J Weiss | June 1937 |
| RR/55/117 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Ergometrine' by Harold Ward Dudley | September 1935 |
| RR/67/226 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The reversible formation of starch from glucose-1- phosphate catalysed by potato phosphorylase' by Charles Samuel Hanes | April 1940 |
| RR/60/40 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The nature of the links in some aromatic molecules II' by W G Penney | September 1936 |
| RR/58/20 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Anthraquinone pigments in galium' by R Hill and D Richter | October 1936 |
| RR/67/47 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The nature of the oestrogenic substances produced during the demethylation of anethole' by N R Campbell, Edward Charles Dodds and W Lawson | 22 October 1939 |
| RR/67/105 | Referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'Synthetic oestrogenic compounds related to stilbene and diphenylethane. Part I' by Edward Charles Dodds, L Golberg, W Lawson and Robert Robinson | 3 February 1939 |
| NLB/57/881 | Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to unknown correspondent | 26 February 1920 |
| RR/67/224 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Interconversions of carbohydrates in the higher plants. The breakdown and synthesis of starch by an enzyme system from pea seeds' by Charles Samuel Hanes | 21 November 1939 |
| RR/68/280 | Referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'Synthetic oestrogenic compounds related to stilbene and diphenylethane. II' by Edward Charles Dodds, L Golberg, E I Grünfeld, Wilfrid Lawson, C M Saffer and Robert Robinson | 25 August 1943 |
| RR/68/486 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The structure and reactivity of the halogenobenzens' by George Wallace Kenner | [1944] |
| NLB/73/368 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir George Hadcock, K.B.E., FRS | 9 July 1931 |
| IM/003856 | Robinson, Sir Robert | nd |
| PB/1/33/1/8 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| RR/67/153 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The colours of the plumose anemone Metridium senile (L.)' by D L Fox and Carl Frederick Abel Pantin | 1940 |
| IM/003858 | Robinson, Sir Robert | 1947 |
| IM/006417 | Group photograph of Officers of the Royal Society 1945-50 | c 1945-50 |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
| RR/62/31 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The reactivity of the sulphur linkage in animal fibres—Part I The chemical mechanism of permanent set' by J B Speakman | [March 1936] |
| RR/65/159 | Referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'The distribution of anthocyanins in flowers, fruits and leaves' by William John Cooper Lawrence, James Robert Price, Gertrude Maud Robinson and Robert Robinson | 14 November 1938 |
| RR/39/86 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'The action of high speed cathode rays on acetylene' by John Cunningham McLennan, M W Perrin and H J C Ireton | [June 1929] |
| RR/49/30 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Physico-chemical studies of complex organic molecules. Part I.— Monochromatic irradiation' by Frank Philip Bowden and C P Snow | [February 1934] |
| ROR | Collected papers of Robert Robinson | 1902-1983 |
| RR/48/36 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'On the catalytic reduction of organic compounds: 5-bromo-5-alkyl-barbituric acids' by G K Hughes, A K Macbeth and S W Pennychick | [August 1933] |
| RR/49/27 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'Physico-chemical studies of complex organic molecules. Part II.— Absorption spectra at low temperatures' by Frank Philip Bowden and S D D Morris | [February 1934] |
| RR/65/272 | Referee's report by Robert Robinson, on a paper 'An analysis of the mechanism of oestrogenic activity' by Nicholas T Werthessen and Gregory Pincus | July 1938 |
| RR/78/52 | Referee's report by Charles Robert Harington, on a paper 'Synthetic oestrogenic compounds related to stilbene and diphenylethane III' by Edward Charles Dodds, R L Huang, Wilfred Lawson and Sir Robert Robinson | 17 July 1952 |
| RR/78/53 | Referee's report by Sydney John Folley, on a paper 'Synthetic oestrogenic compounds related to stilbene and diphenylethane III' by Edward Charles Dodds, R L Huang, Wilfred Lawson and Sir Robert Robinson | 19 August 1952 |