Derek John Scott Robinson (born 25 September 1938 in Montrose, Scotland)[1] is a British mathematician, specialising in group theory and homological algebra.
[2] His Ph.D. thesis Theory of Subnormal Subgroups was supervised by Philip Hall.
[3] As a postdoc, Robinson was from 1963 to 1965 an instructor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
He held visiting appointments in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Singapore.
[2] Robinson's 1964 paper on T-groups[4] has over 250 citations.