FOREWORD: MORRIS J. ROBINS-TEACHER, MENTOR, SCIENTIST,COLLEAGUE, AND FRIEND

摘要

Morris J. Robins was born in Nephi, Utah. He received a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Utah in 1961 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry with a minor in biochemistry from Arizona State University in 1965. After a year of postdoctoral studies at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo and three years as a Research Associate at the University of Utah, he joined the faculty at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He rose through the ranks to professor and chair of the Division of Organic Chemistry during 1969-1986. While at the UofA, Professor Robins established a continuing research program on the fundamental organic chemistry of nucleic acid components with applications to biochemistry and in anticancer and antiviral medicine. He moved to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 1987, and was appointed as the first J. Rex Goates Professor of Chemistry in 1988.