| Authorised form of name | Robertson; Muriel (1883 - 1973) |
| Dates | 1883 - 1973 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 08 April 1883 |
| Place of death | Limvady, Northern Ireland |
| Date of death | 14/06/1973 |
| Research field | Bacteriology |
| Protozoology |
| Activity | Education:
At home; Glasgow University. MA (1905), DSc (1922)
Career:
Research at Glasgow University; Carnegie Fellow (1907-1910); travelled to Ceylon to study blood parasites of reptiles (1907); returned to Glasgow (1908); research assistant to E A Minchin (FRS 1911) at the Lister Institute of Preventitive Medicine, London (1909-1911), and joined the staff of the Institute (1910); Protozoologist to the Protectorate of Uganda in the Royal Society laboratory, Mpumu (1911-1914); returned to the Lister Institute when war broke out (1914); studied the bacterial causes of gangrene, which she returned to when evacuated to Cambridge (1939); Head, Department of Protozoology, Lister Institute (1944); her main research was in Trichomonas; had one eye removed due to glaucoma (1950s); worked part-time in the laboratory of the Agricultural Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, near Cambridge; went to live with her sister in Limvady and spent the last 18 months of her life in hospital there |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1947 |
| Relationships | Daughter of Robert Andrew Robertson, engineer, and his wife Elizabeth Ritter |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1974 vol 20 pp 317-347, plate, by Ann Bishop and Sir Ashley Miles
References:
Joan Mason, 'The Women Fellows' Jubilee' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 125-140 |
| Royal Society code | NA8015 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1947/22 | Robertson, Muriel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WS/2673/B | Robertson, Muriel | 1946 |
| CMB/51/16 | Programme of proposed research, submitted by Muriel Robertson to the Royal Society Tropical Diseases Committee | February 1911 |
| CMB/51/49 | Copy, telegram from the Officer Administering the Government of Uganda, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies | 30 October 1912 |
| CMB/51/69 | Copy, letter from Muriel Robertson, Kampala, Uganda, to [the Secretary of the Royal Society] | 22 September 1913 |
| CMB/51/89 | Copy, letter from Muriel Robertson, from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, to Sir David Bruce, Chair of the Tropical Diseases Committee | 17 March 1919 |
| CMB/51/43 | Programme of proposed work, 1912-1913, prepared for the Tropical Diseases Committee by Miss Muriel Robertson | September 1912 |
| CMB/51/42 | Copy, letter from Miss Muriel Robertson, Mpumu, Uganda, to [the Secretaries of the Royal Society] | 2 September 1912 |
| CMB/51/68 | Copy, letter from Muriel Robertson, the camp, Norther Province Uganda, to [the Secretary of the Royal Society] | 13 August 1913 |
| NLB/43/514 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss [Muriel] Robertson | 1 February 1911 |
| NLB/46/69 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Muriel Robertson | 6 June 1912 |
| NLB/46/687 | Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to The Under Secretary of State, the Colonial Office | 16 October 1912 |
| NLB/50/461 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Muriel Robertson, Lister Institute | 13 July 1914 |
| RR/18/176 | Referee's report by Sidney Frederic Harmer, on a paper 'Transmission of flagellates living in the blood of certain freshwater fishes' by Muriel Robertson | 20 January 1911 |
| RR/18/177 | Referee's report by David Bruce, on a paper 'Transmission of flagellates living in the blood of certain freshwater fishes' by Muriel Robertson | 30 January 1911 |
| RR/19/104 | Referee's report by William Boog Leishman, on a paper 'Notes on the life-history of Trypanosoma gambiense, with a brief reference to the cycles of Trypanosoma nanum and Trypanosoma pecorum in Glossina palpalis' by Muriel Robertson | [November 1912] |
| NLB/57/157 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Bruce, FRS, KCB, Surgeon General | 31 July 1919 |
| CMB/51/70 | Copy, letter from Muriel Robertson, Kampala, Uganda, to [the Secretary of the Royal Society] | 27 September 1913 |
| IM/GA/WS/2673/C | Robertson, Muriel | 1946 |
| NLB/48/124 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Miss Muriel Robertson, Kampala, Uganda | 19 May 1913 |
| RR/19/105 | Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'Notes on the life-history of Trypanosoma gambiense, etc' by Muriel Robertson | [October 1912] |
| RR/19/102 | Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'Notes on certain aspects of the development of Trypanosoma gambiense in Glossina palpalis' by Muriel Robertson | [March 1912] |
| RR/19/103 | Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'Notes on the life-history of Trypanosoma gambiense, with a brief reference to the cycles of Trypanosoma nanum and Trypanosoma pecorum in Glossina palpalis' by Muriel Robertson | [October 1912] |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |