Enid MacRobbie

Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie
Born (1931-12-05) 5 December 1931 (age 92)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Professor, plant scientist
Known forion fluxes and stomata

Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie, FRS FRSE (born 5 December 1931) is a Scottish plant scientist who is Emeritus Professor of Plant Biophysics at the University of Cambridge[1] and a Life Fellow of Girton College.[2] Her specialty is biophysics, with particular interests in ion fluxes and stomata.[3]

Born on 5 December 1931, in Edinburgh,[3] MacRobbie was appointed "to a Personal Professorship in 1987, the first woman scientist in Cambridge to be awarded a Personal Chair."[3] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1991 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998.[3] She is also a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists.[3] Roger Spanswick was a member of her laboratory.

  1. ^ "University of Cambridge Academic: Jim Haseloff / Julian Hibberd / Roger Leigh / Enid MacRobbie". plant-biology.com.
  2. ^ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-enid-macrobbie
  3. ^ a b c d e "Women Pioneers in Plant Biology / Biographies: Enid MacRobbie". American Society of Plant Biologists. Archived from the original on 3 December 2003.

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