Derek W. Robinson

He attended grammar school followed by the University of Oxford where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with honours in mathematics in 1957 and a PhD in nuclear physics in 1960 with the dissertation, Multiple Coulomb Excitations in Deformed Nuclei.

He served as the president of the Department of Physics from 1973 to 1975 and the assistant director of the Centre de Physique at CNRS in Marseille from 1974 to 1978.

[4] Robinson is best known for the discovery of Lieb-Robinson bounds, the theoretical upper limit for the speed of information propagation in a non-relativistic quantum system.

He is also known for writing, with Ola Bratteli a two-volume work titled, Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics.

[1] He was also a world-class cyclist, having won Time Trials Championship in the International Masters Games Melbourne in 2002 in the Men 65-69 category.