Noah Robinson is the son of the previous senator of District 2, Art Robinson. He was raised in Cave Junction and homeschooled along with his 5 brothers and sisters. Noah and his family are experts in education. At the age of 15, Noah oversaw the project to put together and market the second, and most comprehensive, version of their self-teaching home school curriculum. The Robinson Curriculum has educated more than 100,000 students worldwide. An outstanding home-school student himself, Noah finished college calculus at the age of 15 and went on to study college-level physics and chemistry before applying to college. He took numerous advanced placement exams and tested out of so many courses that he entered the chemistry program at Southern Oregon University as a junior. He graduated in two years with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. After earning his PhD in chemistry from Caltech, Noah worked with Nobel Laureate Dr. Bruce Merrifield at Rockefeller University in New York City and his father at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. They synthesized more than 900 peptides in an effort to understand a specialized reaction in protein chemistry called “deamidation,” which is a timing mechanism in biochemistry. The work he accomplished allowed for a complete determination of the peptide deamidation rates. Noah followed on this work with his favorite theoretical paper based on these measurements. Using models of atoms and their experimentally determined rates, Noah was able to figure out mechanistically why the rates followed certain patterns in a truly elegant quantitative approach. Noah and Art then used this work as a foundation to develop models for predicting deamidation rates of amides in proteins. In 2007, Noah was a co-author with Dr. Art Robinson and Dr. Willie Soon on a review article entitled “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.” He has also published papers on advanced medical diagnostics.
