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'This account is specially valuable for the insights offered into many institutions with which its subject was connected.' 'The world of Sir Robert Robinson was a fascinating place, and it is a great merit of Williams's book that the author allows us to see his subject in a setting that is illuminated with care and sympathy.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book deals neatly with a factual account of Robinson's life ... Williams deals with the years immediately preceding his death in a sensitive and restrained way. This is a 'scientific biography' in that, after reading it, I felt I had learnt more about Robinson the chemist than Robinson the man.' A.R. Butler, Chemistry in Britain

`This account is specially valuable for the insights offered into many institutions with which its subject was connected.' `The world of Sir Robert Robinson was a fascinating place, and it is a great merit of Williams's book that the author allows us to see his subject in a setting that is illuminated with care and sympathy.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book deals neatly with a factual account of Robinson's life ... Williams deals with the years immediately preceding his death in a sensitive and restrained way. This is a 'scientific biography' in that, after reading it, I felt I had learnt more about Robinson the chemist than Robinson the man.' A.R. Butler, Chemistry in Britain 'the volume gives a valuable and very fair account of Robert Robinson Dr. Williams has clearly put a great deal of work into collecting and sifting material from both professional and family sources and has produced an informative and well-balanced account of the life and work of an extraordinarily complex yet extremely human scientist ... this is a comprehensive, well-written biography of a great scientist, and it will be a standard work of reference for any student of the rise of organic chemistry in the twentieth century and the imprint of Robert Robinson upon it.' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.30 (1991) No.8

`This account is specially valuable for the insights offered into many institutions with which its subject was connected.' `The world of Sir Robert Robinson was a fascinating place, and it is a great merit of Williams's book that the author allows us to see his subject in a setting that is illuminated with care and sympathy.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book deals neatly with a factual account of Robinson's life ... Williams deals with the years immediately preceding his death in a sensitive and restrained way. This is a 'scientific biography' in that, after reading it, I felt I had learnt more about Robinson the chemist than Robinson the man.' A.R. Butler, Chemistry in Britain 'the volume gives a valuable and very fair account of Robert Robinson Dr. Williams has clearly put a great deal of work into collecting and sifting material from both professional and family sources and has produced an informative and well-balanced account of the life and work of an extraordinarily complex yet extremely human scientist ... this is a comprehensive, well-written biography of a great scientist, and it will be a standard work of reference for any student of the rise of organic chemistry in the twentieth century and the imprint of Robert Robinson upon it.' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.30 (1991) No.8

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Trevor I. Williams is editor of Endeavour and Outlook on Agriculture

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