Richard Robson FAA FRS (born 4 June 1937) is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.
[3][4] Robson was born in Glusburn in West Yorkshire in the UK, and read chemistry at the University of Oxford (BA 1959, DPhil 1962).
[5] His journey into this field began in 1974 when he was tasked with building large wooden models of crystalline structures for first-year chemistry lectures.
In the 1990s, Robson created a new class of coordination polymers that would inspire an entirely new field of chemistry.
[6] This method resulted in the creation of crystal-like scaffolds with a diamond-like structure but with significant space within the framework.