Agnes Eleanora Miller FRSE (1898–1994) was a Scottish zoologist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Life

She was born in

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in central Scotland on 7 September 1898, the eldest daughter of William Douglas Miller and his wife Agnes Cameron Adam, a singer and pianist who studied under Sir

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. In 1906, the family moved to 57 Kirklee Road in

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. She was educated at Westbourne School for Girls, Glasgow and then attended

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for a year. She then attended the

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, originally studying medicine but changing to Zoology under the influence of

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, graduating with a Master's degree in 1920. She became Kerr's Demonstrator in 1924, and began lecturing in Zoology in 1929. In 1954 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her proposers were Sir

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, Sir

, Harry Slack and

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. She waited until the end of career before submitting her PhD thesis, and was awarded her doctorate by the

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in 1962. In 1963, she retired and left the family home to live with her widowed sister, Betty Gordon, in

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. She died in a nursing home on 23 March 1994 at the age of 95.

Publications

*''Studies in Dipnoan Structure''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Nora 1898 births 1994 deaths 20th-century British zoologists Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century British women scientists