Muriel Robertson

Muriel Robertson
FRS, FRSTM
black and white portrait photograph of Muriel Robertson wearing spectacles
Born(1883-04-08)8 April 1883
Glasgow, Scotland
Died14 June 1973(1973-06-14) (aged 90)
Derry, Northern Ireland
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Known forprotozoology and bacteriology
lifecycle of Trypanosoma gambiense in blood and in its insect carrier, the tsetse fly
Scientific career
InstitutionsLister Institute
Thesis A study of the life histories of certain trypanosomes

Muriel Robertson FRS,[1] FRSTM, F.I.Biol (8 April 1883 – 14 June 1973)[1][2] was a Scottish protozoologist and bacteriologist at the Lister Institute, London[1] from 1915 to 1961. She made key discoveries of the life cycle of trypanosomes.[3][4][5][6][7] She was one of the founding members of the Society for Microbiology, along with Alexander Fleming and Marjory Stephenson.

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  2. ^ ROBERTSON, Muriel, Who Was Who A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 9 Jan 2012
  3. ^ University of Glasgow Biography – accessed 9 January 2012
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