Enid MacRobbie

{{Short description|British biologist and biophysicist (1931–2024)}}

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| name = Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie, FRS, FRSE

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1931|12|05}}

| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2024|09|22|1931|12|05}}

| death_place = Derbyshire, England

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| nationality = British

| alma_mater = Life Fellow of Girton College

| occupation = Professor, plant scientist

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| known_for = Ion fluxes and stomata

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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{{cite web |url=http://www.plant-biology.com/Jim-Haseloff.php |title=University of Cambridge Academic: Jim Haseloff / Julian Hibberd / Roger Leigh / Enid MacRobbie |publisher=plant-biology.com}} and a Life Fellow of Girton College.[https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-enid-macrobbie Professor Enid MacRobbie] {{Dead link|date=March 2025}} Her specialty was biophysics, with particular interests in ion fluxes and stomata.

Born on 5 December 1931, in Edinburgh,{{cite web |url=http://www.aspb.org/committees/women/pioneers.cfm#Enid%20MacRobbie |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031203235101/http://www.aspb.org/committees/women/pioneers.cfm#Enid%20MacRobbie |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-12-03 |title=Women Pioneers in Plant Biology / Biographies: Enid MacRobbie |publisher=American Society of Plant Biologists }} 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.{{Cite web |title=Obituaries – Cambridge University Reporter 6753 |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2024-25/weekly/6753/section6.shtml |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.admin.cam.ac.uk}}