Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie | |
Birth Date: | 1931 12, df=y |
Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Nationality: | British |
Occupation: | Professor, plant scientist |
Known For: | ion fluxes and stomata |
Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie, (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.
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.