Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie, (born 5 December 1931) is a Scottish plant scientist who is Emeritus Professor of Plant Biophysics at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and a Life Fellow of

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.https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-enid-macrobbie Her specialty is

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...

, with particular interests in

ion flux Flux describes any effect that appears to pass or travel (whether it actually moves or not) through a surface or substance. Flux is a concept in applied mathematics and vector calculus which has many applications to physics. For transport ph ...

es and

stomata In botany, a stoma (from Greek ''στόμα'', "mouth", plural "stomata"), also called a stomate (plural "stomates"), is a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that controls the rate of gas exchange. The pore is b ...

. Born on 5 December 1931, in

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, 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

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of London in 1991 and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998. She is also a Foreign Member of the

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and a Corresponding Member of the

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. 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.

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1931 births Living people Female Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Scottish biologists Scottish biophysicists Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-scientist-stub