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Julian Perry Robinson – a British chemist and peace researcher died on 22 April 2020 as a result of complications related to COVID-19. He held research appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University and the University of Sussex. He was a consultant to the World Health Organisation, United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Environment Programme. He was a member of staff at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1968 to 1971. While there he was a principal contributor to the six volume study The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare . 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...

Timothy Drever Robinson, an English writer and cartographer, passed away on 3 April 2020after suffering from coronavirus complications. His most famous works include books about Ireland's Aran Islands and Connemara, in the West of Ireland. He was also well known for producing exceptionally detailed maps of the Aran Islands, The Burren, and Connemara, what he called "the ABC of earth wonders". Born in England, he studied mathematics at the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After a career as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, he settled in the Aran Islands, off the coast of County Galway in the 1970s, and began a detailed study of the landscape of the West Region, Ireland. Robinson produced his first map of the Aran Islands in 1975 with a se...

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Julian Perry Robinson, chemist

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