Professor Richard Robson

Professor Richard Robson

School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

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What it’s like to do your PhD with a future Nobel Prize winner

‘Inventive’, ‘rewarding’, ‘uncharted’. Professor Richard Robson's former PhD students knew they were part of something special, well before he was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

Sciences & Technology

The Nobel Prize winner who built a whole new field of chemistry

In the 90s, Professor Richard Robson created a new class of coordination polymers - now he and two other scientists have won the Nobel Prize in 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