Robert Harold (Robin) Stokes FAA (1918–2016) was an Australian chemist and Foundation Professor of Chemistry at the University of New England, from 1955 to 1979. His research interests included solution thermodynamics and electrolytes.Stokes was born on 24 December 1918 at Southsea in England, and the family moved to New Zealand in the 1920s. Stokes was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College, where his studies were interrupted by the war, (BSc 1938, MSc (hons) 1940, DSc 1949) and University of Cambridge (PhD 1950).In 1942 he married Jean Wilson and in 1946 he accepted a position at the University of Western Australia.
