Sir Robert Robinson (1886 to 1975) was an English organic chemist born in Derbyshire, who died in Buckinghamshire. He won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on plant products of biological importance, especially alkaloids and anthocyanin plant dyestuffs, and he pioneered the biomimetic approach to synthesis, proposing that natural products could be synthesized by routes mirroring how plants themselves assemble them. Robinson also devised the curved-arrow notation still used throughout organic chemistry to show how electron pairs move during a reaction, and he served as president of the Royal Society from 1945 to 1950.
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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.
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Derbyshire, England
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Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
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Organic chemistry
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He also discovered the molecular structures of morphine and penicillin.
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