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For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.
~ Robert Robinson
Achieve
Also
Am
Award
Beholden
Chemistry
Committee
Distinction
Foundation
Greatly
Highest
I Am
Mark
Myself
Nobel
Scientist
Sponsors
Supporters
Thank
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I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.
~ Robert Robinson
Discovered
Found
Mines
More
Never
Penicillin
Where
Worked
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In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
~ Robert Robinson
Given
Laboratory
Manchester
Place
Private
Privileged
Professor
Revered
Teacher
University
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It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
~ Robert Robinson
Bring
Committees
Enhances
Fact
Focus
Further
Known
Nobel
Opinion
Prestige
Prizes
Still
Well
Well Known
World
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Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters which can be used with the material from a few flower petals.
~ Robert Robinson
Chief
Few
Flower
Material
Matters
Me
Petals
Possession
Pure
Quick
Synthetic
Tests
Used
Which
Wife
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The structural or biogenetic relations of plant products as deduced from the recognizable architectural components of the molecules have been consistent guides in my investigations.
~ Robert Robinson
Architectural
Been
Components
Consistent
Guides
Investigations
Molecules
Plant
Products
Recognizable
Relations
Structural
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The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
~ Robert Robinson
Any
Assumed
Emotion
Experience
Imagination
Incredible
Least
Must
Nobel
Possess
Prizes
Sensibility
Should
Surge
Therefore
Time
Us
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There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
~ Robert Robinson
Analogy
Between
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Close
Mathematics
Organic
Physics
Pure
Relation
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There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.
~ Robert Robinson
Adequate
Attached
Could
Label
Me
No-One
Thought
Would
Would-Be
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Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.
~ Robert Robinson
Allowed
Collaborator
Consistent
Constant
First
Help
How
How Much
Individuals
Longest
May
Mention
Might
Most
Much
Over
Owe
Period
Quite
Say
Though
Wife
Years
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AuthorName
Robert Robinson
Profession
Scientist
BirthDate
13 September, 1886
DeathDate
08 February, 1975
Country
United Kingdom
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