Robin Nicholson (metallurgist)

Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson, is a British industrial metallurgist and academic, who served as Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office, from 1983 to 1985. He then joined the board of Rolls-Royce plc, where he served until 2005. He was also a non-executive board member of BP plc and Pilkington plc. ^{Robin Nicholson, English metallurgist and academic}

12 August 1934

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