Definition of Sir Robert Robinson

1. Noun. English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975).

Exact synonyms: Robert Robinson, Robinson
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Robert Robinson

Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Patrick Manson
Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Ralph David Richardson
Sir Rex Harrison
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richrd Steele
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Robinson (current term)
Sir Robert Walpole
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
Sir Ronald Ross
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sir Seretse Khama
Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Thomas Gresham
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Wyat

Literary usage of Sir Robert Robinson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Historical and Statistical Account of the Bermudas: From Their Discovery by William Frith Williams (1848)
"Governors F. Seymour—Richard Cony—Dissolution of the Bermuda Company—Governors Sir Robert Robinson—Isaac Richier—John Goddard—Samuel Day—Benjamin ..."

2. An Historical and Statistical Account of the Bermudas: From Their Discovery by William Frith Williams (1848)
"Governors F. Seymour—Richard Cony—Dissolution of the Bermuda Company—Governors Sir Robert Robinson—Isaac Richier—John Goddard—Samuel Day—Benjamin ..."

3. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at by Pepys Library, Samuel Pepys, Great Britain Admiralty. Archives, J[oseph] R[obson] Tanner (1904)
"SP to Sir Robert Robinson."1—To speak with the navy officers about entering men for the Royal Oak [1676]. 1690. [p. 272.] 12 Aug. SP to Captain Griffith? ..."

4. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Did above a week since tender a commission to the king for Captain Tinker's commanding the Royal Oak, but Sir Robert Robinson ' upon a certain consideration ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"A copy of the same was sent to Sir Robert Robinson at Portsmouth,30 and very similar instructions to Sir Richard Beach at Chatham, these last applying not ..."

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