Enid MacRobbie

Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie (5 December 1931 – 22 September 2024) was a Scottish plant scientist who was emeritus Professor of Plant Biophysics at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Girton College. Her specialty was biophysics, with particular interests in ion fluxes and stomata.

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

MacRobbie died on 22 September 2024, at the age of 92.

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

External links

• Google scholar