Gertrude Maud Robinson

Gertrude Maud Robinson was an influential British organic chemist most famous for her work on plant pigments; the Piloty-Robinson Pyrrole Synthesis, which is named for her; her syntheses of fatty acids; and her synthesis of δ-hexenolactone, the first synthetic molecule with the character of penicillin. Robinson was born on 6 February 1886 in Winsford, Cheshire and died of a heart attack on 1 March 1954, in Oxfordshire, aged 68.