Brandbury Robinson was a college football player for St. Louis University. On September 5, 1906, he threw the first legal forward pass in a football game against Carroll College. Jack Schneider was the receiver. A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Carroll College can mean: Carroll College (Montana) Carroll College (Wisconsin) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Robinson summed up his philosophy about basic research when he said in his Nobel address, "In both [chemistry and physics] it is in the course of attack of the most difficult problems, without consideration of eventual applications, that new fundamental knowledge is most certainly garnered....
Robinson was born to the inventor William Bradbury Robinson and Jane (Davenport) Robinson on September 13, 1886 near Chesterfield, England.
Robinson elucidated the structure of morphine and strychnine, and synthesized the alkaloids papaverine, hydrastine, narcotine, and tropinone.
Robinson is best known for his study and synthesis of several groups of organic chemicals which are composed of two or more ring structures--alkaloids (including morphine and strychnine), the female sex hormones and other steroids, and plant pigments called anthocyanins.
Robinson's most important work, in 1925, was determining the complete structure of morphine.
Robinson was also one of several scientists to independently determine the structure of the steroid cholesterol.
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