Julian Perry Robinson

Julian Perry Robinson (11 November 1941 – 22 April 2020)[1] was a British chemist and peace researcher.[2][3]

Academic career

Born in Jerusalem, Perry Robinson was educated at Canford School, and went up to Merton College, Oxford in 1960 to read Chemistry; he took a second class degree in 1964.[4][5] After university he spent four years studying national and international patent law with a London-based firm of Chartered Patent Agents.[6][7]

He held research appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University and the University of Sussex.[2]

He was a consultant to the World Health Organization, United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Environment Programme.[2]

He was a member of staff at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1968 to 1971.[2] While there he was a principal contributor to the six volume study The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare .[2]

He was also a co-convenor of the Pugwash Study Group on Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, co-directed the Harvard Sussex Programme on Chemical and Biological Weapons, which published the CBW Conventions Bulletin.[2]

Personal life and death

He died on 22 April 2020 as a result of complications related to COVID-19.[2][3] His widow is the political scientist Mary Kaldor.

References
  1. "Julian Perry Robinson, top chemical and biological arms control expert, dies of coronavirus". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. Hart, John (24 April 2020). "In Memoriam—Professor Julian Perry Robinson (1941–2020)". Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  3. "Former SIPRI Researcher Julian Perry Robinson—in memoriam". Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  4. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 525.
  5. "Professor Julian Perry Robinson obituary". The Times. Times Newspapers Limited. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  6. Guthrie, Richard (8 May 2020). "Julian Perry Robinson obituary". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  7. McLeish, Caitriona (28 May 2020). "Julian Perry Robinson (1941–2020)" (PDF). Nature. 581: 378. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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