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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 Ca 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

1. "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. ^ "Women Pioneers in Plant Biology / Biographies: Enid MacRobbie". American Society of Plant Biologists. Archived from the original on 3 December 2003.
4. "Obituaries – Cambridge University Reporter 6753". www.admin.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

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