(b. February 17, 1919.)
Birth name given as Jack Rubinson in N3F Member Spotlight/Interview and Knight's The Futurians.
Invited by Walter Kubilius to attend a meeting of the ISA, Robins joined that organization and helped form the Futurians.
Robins had attended Boys High School in Brooklyn and invited a former classmate of his, Isaac Asimov, to join the Futurians after seeing Asimov's name in the lettercols. In January 1938 as a member of the Futurians, along with Donald A. Wollheim, Harry Dockweiler, John B. Michel, and Frederik Pohl, Robins organized the Committee for the Political Advancement of Science Fiction. Despite the Exclusion Act, Robins was permitted to attend the NYCon. In the 1940s, he published ten issues of the fanzine Looking Ahead. After he left the Futurians, Robins received a Ph.D. in Chemistry and maintained an interest in science fiction.
Nominated for the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2012.
| from Fancyclopedia 1 ca. 1944 |
| Name taken by Jack Robinson about 1939. |
