Richard Robson (chemist)
Richard Robson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1937 (age 88–89) |
| Education | Brasenose College, Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Known for | Coordination polymers Metal-organic frameworks |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Inorganic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Melbourne |
| Thesis | Some Studies on the Ultraviolet Irradiation of Charge-Transfer Complexes and Related Systems[1] |
| Website | findanexpert |
Richard Robson FAA FRS (born 1937) is an English-Australian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.[2] Robson's work focuses in coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks.[3] He was called "a pioneer in crystal engineering involving transition metals."[4][5]
In 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi for the creation of metal-organic frameworks.[6]
References
- ↑ "Thesis Dissertation, 1962". WorldCat.org.
- ↑ "Robson, Richard - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science".
- ↑ Hoskins, Bernard F.; Robson, Richard (1989). "Infinite polymeric frameworks consisting of three dimensionally linked rod-like segments". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 111 (15): 5962–5964. Bibcode:1989JAChS.111.5962H. doi:10.1021/ja00197a079.
- ↑ Wise, Donald (27 March 1998). Electrical and Optical Polymer Systems: Fundamentals: Methods, and Applications. CRC Press. p. 872. ISBN 978-0-8247-0118-5.
- ↑ Stuart R. Batten; Suzanne M. Neville; David R. Turner (2009). Coordination Polymers: Design, Analysis and Application. Royal Society of Chemistry. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-85404-837-3.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025". The Nobel Prize. 8 October 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.