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Sir Robert Robinson
(13 Sep 1886 - 8 Feb 1975)
English chemist.
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Science Quotes by Sir Robert Robinson (1 quote)
Remarking about Frederick Sanger who used the new technique of paper chromotography:
They are not chemists there, just a lot of paper hangers.
They are not chemists there, just a lot of paper hangers.
— Sir Robert Robinson
Quoted in 'Alexander Robertus Todd, O.M., Baron Todd of Trumpington', obituary by Damiel M. Brown and Hans Kornberg in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 2000, 46, 527. At Cambridge, Todd and his colleagues began using paper chromotography in the early 1950s to separate a mixture of vitamin B12 reaction products as a method to identify them.
See also:
- 13 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Robinson's birth.
- Robert Robinson: Scientist Extraordinary, by Trevor I. Williams. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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