Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary

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

• The Robinsons of Chesterfield; Students days at Manchester; Sydney: the first Chair; Liverpool and a flirtation with industry; St Andrews: the Scottish experience; Manchester and London; The electronic theory of reaction: the Ingold controversy; Pre-war Oxford; The Second World War; The last years of academe; An active retirement; The darkening years; Notes; Index.

`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