biography
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Robinson, Sir Robert
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| lived:
| (1886–1975)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He studied at Manchester University, and taught at Sydney, Liverpool, St Andrews, Manchester, London, and Oxford universities, becoming Waynflete professor at Oxford (1930–55). He is particularly noted for his work on plant pigments, alkaloids, and other natural products, and in the development of penicillin. Knighted in 1939, he was president of the Royal Society (1945–50) and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947. |
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