Collected papers of Robert Robinson Contains the correspondence and papers of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975). The collection spans his entire career, and includes some posthumous material from colleagues, research collaborators and family members. The bulk of the material relates to Robinson's scientific research. These largely comprise of Robinson's own notes and notebooks, of varying lengths and completeness, on the wide range of research topics he was interested in. Many of these are undated, but date ranges and estimates have been provided in numerous cases by scientists who worked with Robinson during his career. Examples include a sequence of ideas on the possible structure of strychnine, tentatively dated 1945-1947 by John Warcup Cornforth, and two relatively extensive and complete sequences of later research and correspondence on the origins of petroleum and drug research. Robinson rarely kept copies of his outgoing correspondence, or papers relating to much of his public work and service on committees, advisory boards, learned societies, and in the launching of new journals. Gaps in the collection are to some extent compensated for by the extensive autobiographical material, which consists of background material and corrected proofs for his memoirs. The first volume was published in 1976, and substantial typescript drafts survive for the second volume which was unfinished at the time of his death. As well as Robinson's own writing, he retained narratives, correspondence and photographs sent to him by colleagues, and there are also tape recordings of conversations with colleagues covering similar types of recollections. Robinson continued to play an active role in scientific research until his death, despite the onset of blindless later in life. His lectures and publications in this collection include copies of papers that remained unpulished or unfinished at the time of his death. Some posthumous material has also been added to the collection. This was largely assembled by Alexander Robertus Todd and John Warcup Cornforth while they were in the process of writing Robinson's memoir, for publication in 'Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society'. 1902-1983