Richard Robson (chemist)

Richard Robson
Born1937 (age 88–89)
Glusburn, England, UK
EducationBrasenose College, Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Known forCoordination polymers
Metal-organic frameworks
AwardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
Scientific career
FieldsInorganic chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne
ThesisSome Studies on the Ultraviolet Irradiation of Charge-Transfer Complexes and Related Systems
Websitefindanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/15996-richard-robson

Richard Robson FAA FRS (born 1937) is an English-Australian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. Robson's work focuses in coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks. He was called "a pioneer in crystal engineering involving transition metals."

In 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi for the creation of metal-organic frameworks.

References

  1. ↑ "Thesis Dissertation, 1962". WorldCat.org.
  2. ↑ "Robson, Richard - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science".
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Wise, Donald (27 March 1998). Electrical and Optical Polymer Systems: Fundamentals: Methods, and Applications. CRC Press. p. 872. ISBN 978-0-8247-0118-5.
  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.
  6. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025". The Nobel Prize. 8 October 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.