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Robert Robinson Award Winners
- 2020 - Professor Anthony Davis
- 2019 - Professor Bernard Golding
- 2018 - Professor Tom Simpson
- 2017 - Professor Dale Boger
- 2016 - Professor Thomas Hoye
- 2015 - Professor Chi-Huey Wong
- 2014 - Professor Robert G. Bergman
- 2013 - Professor John Brown
- 2012 - Professor Kendall Houk
- 2011 - Lewis N Mander
- 2010 - Dieter Enders
- 2009 - Alan Katritzky
- 2008 - Scott Denmark
- 2007 - Professor Gerry Pattenden
- 2006 - Professor Steve V Ley
- 2004 - Professor Ian Paterson
- 2002 - Professor Jim Staunton
- 2000 - D A Evans
- 1998 - J E Baldwin
- 1996 - P D Magnus
- 1994 - L Crombie
- 1992 - G Stork
- 1990 - J-M P Lehn
- 1988 - E J Corey
- 1986 - A R Battersby
- 1984 - A Arigoni
- 1981 - A J Birch
- 1980 - A W Johnson
- 1978 - Sir Ewart Jones
- 1976 - A Eschenmoser
- 1974 - M J S Dewar
- 1970 - D H R Barton
- 1968 - V Prelog
- 1966 - Lord Todd
- 1964 - R B Woodward
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