Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie | |
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Born |
Edinburgh, Scotland | 5 December 1931
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Professor, plant scientist |
Known for | ion 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.