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Robert Robinson

1886 - 1975

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Sir Robert Robinson (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Robinson has received more than 28,562 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Robert Robinson is the 105th most popular chemist (up from 106th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 556th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Chemist.

Robert Robinson is most famous for his work in the field of organic chemistry. Robinson's work in this field led to the development of the first synthetic antimalarial drug, chloroquine.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert Robinson ranks 105 out of 602. Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Hoffmann, William Giauque, Stanford Moore, Paul Berg, and Ernest Solvay. After him are Konrad Emil Bloch, Richard R. Ernst, Fritz Strassmann, Per Teodor Cleve, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Akira Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Robert Robinson ranks 25. Before him are Karl Polanyi, Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, Hermann Broch, Gotthard Heinrici, and Zhu De. After him are Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Erich Hoepner, Hugo Ball, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, and Kurt Koffka. Among people deceased in 1975, Robert Robinson ranks 20. Before him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint-John Perse, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, George Paget Thomson, and Josemaría Escrivá. After him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Antonín Novotný, Graham Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, Eisaku Satō, and Paul Keres.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Robinson ranks 480 out of 8,785. Before him are Saint Boniface (680), Alexander Pope (1688), Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), G. E. Moore (1873), Muriel Spark (1918), and Kate Winslet (1975). After him are Diana Rigg (1938), Nick Mason (1944), Margot Fonteyn (1919), Joseph Lister (1827), John Smith (1580), and John Dowland (1563).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Robert Robinson ranks 12. Before him are Frederick Soddy (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Francis William Aston (1877), William Crookes (1832), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), and Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861). After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Archer Martin (1910), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), John Newlands (1837), and James Dewar (1842).

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