Derek John Scott Robinson (born 25 September 1938 in Montrose, Scotland) [1] is a British mathematician, specialising in group theory and homological algebra. [2]
Derek John Scott Robinson (born 25 September 1938 in Montrose, Scotland) [1] is a British mathematician, specialising in group theory and homological algebra. [2]
Robinson graduated in 1960 with a bachelor's degree from the University of Edinburgh and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. [2] His Ph.D. thesis Theory of Subnormal Subgroups was supervised by Philip Hall. [3] As a postdoc, Robinson was from 1963 to 1965 an instructor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1965 to 1968 he was a lecturer at Queen Mary College (now named Queen Mary University of London). At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign he was an assistant professor from 1968 to 1969, an associate professor from 1969 to 1974, and a full professor from 1974 to 2007, when he retired as professor emeritus. He held visiting appointments in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Singapore. [2]
Robinson's 1964 paper on T-groups [4] has over 250 citations. He was awarded in 1970 the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize and received in 1979 a Humboldt Prize. [2]
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