Enid MacRobbie explained

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.

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  1. Web site: 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. Web site: Women Pioneers in Plant Biology / Biographies: Enid MacRobbie . https://web.archive.org/web/20031203235101/http://www.aspb.org/committees/women/pioneers.cfm#Enid%20MacRobbie . dead . 2003-12-03 . .