Enid MacRobbie
Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie | |
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Born | (1931-12-05) 5 December 1931 (age 92) Edinburgh, Scotland |
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.
Selected works
- MacRobbie, E.A.C. (2000) "ABA activates multiple Ca2+ fluxes in stomatal guard cells, triggering vacuolar K+ (Rb+) release." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97: 12361-12368.
- MacRobbie, E.A.C. (2002) "Evidence for a role for protein tyrosine phosphatase in the control of ion release from the guard cell vacuole in stomatal closure." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99: 11563-11568.
References
- ^ "University of Cambridge Academic: Jim Haseloff / Julian Hibberd / Roger Leigh / Enid MacRobbie". plant-biology.com.
- ^ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-enid-macrobbie
- ^ 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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