Julian Perry Robinson

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Julian Perry Robinson (11 November 1941 – 22 April 2020)

peace researcher.[2][3]

Academic career

Born in Jerusalem, Perry Robinson was educated at Canford School, and went to Merton College, Oxford in 1960 to study 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 Program 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 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England.[2][3] His widow is the academic Mary Kaldor.

See also

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. ^ a b c d e f g 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. ^ a b "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. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  6. ^ Guthrie, Richard (8 May 2020). "Julian Perry Robinson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  7. S2CID 218772190
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