Gertrude Maud Robinson

Not to be confused with Gertrude Robinson.

Gertrude Maud Robinson
Born
Gertrude Maud Walsh

(1886-02-06)6 February 1886
Winsford, Cheshire, England
Died1 March 1954(1954-03-01) (aged 68)
Oxfordshire, England
Alma materOwens College
SpouseRobert Robinson
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry

Gertrude Maud Robinson (née Walsh; 1886–1954) was an influential British organic chemist most famous for her work on plant pigments; the Piloty-Robinson Pyrrole Synthesis, which is named for her; her syntheses of fatty acids; and her synthesis of δ-hexenolactone, the first synthetic molecule with the character of penicillin. Robinson was born on 6 February 1886 in Winsford, Cheshire and died of a heart attack on 1 March 1954, in Oxfordshire, aged 68.

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