Carol V. Robinson
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| Born | Carol Vivien Bradley 10 April 1956 |
| Nationality | UK |
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| Thesis | Structural studies on bioactive organic compounds (1982) |
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Dame Carol Vivien Robinson, DBE, FRSFMedSci (née Bradley, born 10 April 1956) is a British chemist. She is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, as well as the Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry Elect. She was previously Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge.
Born in Kent, the daughter of Denis E. Bradley and Lillian (née Holder), Carol Vivien Bradley left school at 16 and began her career as a lab technician in Sandwich, Kent with Pfizer, where she began working with the then novel technique of mass spectrometry.
Her potential was spotted, and she gained further qualifications at evening classes and day release from her job at Pfizer. After earning her degree, she left Pfizer and studied for a Master of Science degree at the University of Swansea, followed by a PhD at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in just two years, rather than the more usual three. During this time she was a student at Churchill College, Cambridge.
After a postdoctoral training fellowship at the University of Bristol, she took eight years out to raise a family. She returned to science by taking up a junior position in the mass spectrometry unit at the University of Oxford, where she began analysing protein folding. In 2001, she returned to Cambridge to take up a professorship in the Department of Chemistry, becoming this department's first female professor. She took up her current position in Oxford in 2009.
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