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Authorised form of nameMuir; Sir; Robert (1864 - 1959)
Dates1864 - 1959
Date of birth05 July 1864
Date of death30/03/1959
ActivityEducation:
MD
Honours:
Kt 1934
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/05/1911
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1929
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 149-173, plate, by Roy Cameron
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/79392855
CodeNA1224
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1911/11Muir, Sir Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/003210Muir, Sir Robertnd
IM/003211Muir, Sir Robertnd
NLB/39/333Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] J [James] Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1909
NLB/38/793Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Muir, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The University of Glasgow7 November 1908
NLB/47/683Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor R [Robert] Muir FRS14 March 1913
NLB/52/289Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society3 November 1915
RR/18/115Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Preliminary report upon the injection of rabbits with protein-free (tuberculo-) antigen and antigen-serum mixtures' by Alfred H CaulfelidOctober 1911
RR/23/63Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Observations and experiments on the susceptibility and immunity of rats towards Jensen’s Rat Sarcoma' by J C Mottram and Sidney Russ4 March 1917
NLB/58/451Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Muir, FRS7 May 1920
NLB/58/579Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Muir, FRS27 May 1920
RR/18/114Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Factors in the interpretation of the inhibitive and fixation serum reactions in pulmonary tuberculosis' by Alfred H CaulfelidOctober 1911
RR/49/57Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Studies on epithelial phagocytosis. II. A method for demonstrating the origin of dust cells' by H M Carleton[December 1933]
RR/46/65Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'The kinetics of Haemolysis in colloidal silicic acid—complement systems' by Eric Ponder[November 1932]
RR/54/85Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'The kinetics of hæmolysis in cell-Taurocholate-serum systems' by Eric Ponder and Albert S GordonJanuary 1935
NLB/60/775Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Agent of the Bank of Scotland; 711 Great Western Road, Glasgow5 April 1921
NLB/62/48Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Muir, FRS23 November 1921
NLB/72/394Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, CMG, FRS30 September 1929
NLB/68/357Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS24 June 1925
NLB/69/884Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Robert] Muir, FRS8 November 1926
NLB/71/656Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, C.M.G., FRS26 September 1928
NLB/66/2Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the British Empire Cancer Campaign.1 February 1924
RR/32/12Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the immunity reaction. Part I - An experimental study of pneumococcal immunity' by Richard R ArmstrongJune 1925
RR/32/14Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the immunity reaction. Part II. - A comparison of the antigenic properties of sensitised and raw pneumococcal vaccines' by Richard R ArmstrongJune 1925
RR/32/17Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'Studies on the nature of the immunity reaction. Part III - The possible eugynic value of pneumococcal anitgen' by Richard R ArmstrongJune 1925
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