Australian chemist at the University of Melbourne. He won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize, alongside Kitagawa Susumu and Omar Yaghi, for his work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
Dr Robson helped pioneer the field. Inspired by the ball-and-stick models familiar to generations of chemistry students, he worked out how to make copper ions and tetracyanotetraphenylmethane assemble themselves into a substance with the same pyramidal crystalline structure as diamonds, but with much bigger cavities in its crystal lattice—a house for chemicals that will happily build itself given the right conditions.
I can read your mind, and you should be ashamed of yourself.