Professor Richard Robson

School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

The man who built a whole new field of chemistry

In the 90s, Professor Richard Robson created a new class of coordination polymers, and his models inspired an entirely new field of chemistry

Health & Medicine

Surgeons go green: Recycling general anaesthetic

The development of a new technology that captures potentially damaging anaesthetics could lead to recycling the cleanest, rarest and safest anaesthetic gases known to medicine

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