{"id":74,"date":"2013-05-23T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/user44356.vs.easily.co.uk\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:06:18","slug":"robert-robinson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/?page_id=74","title":{"rendered":"Robert Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robinson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sir Robert Robinson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947\u00a0for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. He is also\u00a0known for discovering the molecular structures of morphine and penicillin.<\/p>\n

Born on September 13th\u00a01886 in Chesterfield, England he had a very prestigious career and was awarded\u00a0many accolades and awards including his Knighthood in 1939, the Commander de la Legion d\u2019Honneur, Order of the Rising Sun, Medal of the Order of Australia,\u00a0the Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia and the Order of Merit in 1949.<\/p>\n

In 1899 at the age of\u00a0thirteen he went to Fulneck School and his younger brother, Victor Owen, joined him in 1900 at the age of nine. Robert went on to graduate with First Class\u00a0Honours in Chemistry at Manchester in 1905. He was elected Fellow of the Royal\u00a0Society before the age of 30 and gained his first Chair of Organic Chemistry in\u00a0Sydney between 1912-1914 and then held similar positions in St Andrews,\u00a0Manchester and London, following his return to Great Britain. Since 1930 he was\u00a0Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and in the same year was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society for his work on the constitution and synthesis\u00a0of natural products, and for his contributions to the theory of original\u00a0reactions. During WWII he played an important role in the development of Penicillin.<\/p>\n

In 1953, Fulneck\u2019s\u00a0Bicentenary year, School invited Robert to present the prizes to the children at Speech Day. Robin Hutton who was present at the time remembers \u201cRev Jim\u00a0Lewis as the Head and I were very impressed at the time by Robert\u2019s quiet voice\u00a0and very modest manner\u201d.<\/em> Another Fulneck resident remembers Robert at Speech Day as being \u2018rather untidily dressed\u2019 as he was apparently going on a climbing holiday with his brother straight afterwards. It is also remembered\u00a0that he challenged the boys with the words \u201cwe have discovered penicillin\u00a0and it is your task how to synthesise it\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

There was a quotation\u00a0in the local press of the time. \u201cI attribute the success of Fulneck Boys School to the very careful planning of the earlier Brethren of the Moravian Church who were not only idealists but also first class business men\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1955 Robert retired\u00a0and was appointed Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.\u00a0In 1962 he was honoured by The Chemical Society by establishing a Robert\u00a0Robinson Lectureship, to be delivered biennially in lieu of the usual\u00a0Presidential address.<\/p>\n

Robert was invited\u00a0back to Fulneck in 1965 to formally open the Robinson Building \u2013 named after\u00a0 him. He died in 1975 leaving son and a daughter and his second wife Stearn.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Robin\u00a0Hutton and Joyce Jones .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sir Robert Robinson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947\u00a0for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. He is also\u00a0known for discovering the molecular structures of morphine and penicillin. Born on September 13th\u00a01886 in Chesterfield, England he had a very prestigious career and was awarded\u00a0many accolades and awards including his Knighthood in … Continue reading Robert Robinson<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}