| Authorised form of name | Marshall; Sheina Macalister (1896 - 1977); marine zoologist |
| Dates | 1896 - 1977 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Stewart Hall, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 20 April 1896 |
| Place of death | Lady Margaret Hospital, Millport, North Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Date of death | 07 April 1977 |
| Occupation | marine zoologist |
| Research field | Marine sciences |
| Marine ecology |
| Marine biology |
| Activity | Education:
Governess at home (up to 1909); Rothesay Academy; St Margaret's School, Polmont, Stirlingshire; Glasgow University. BSc (1919, Zoology, Botany, physiology), DSc (1934)
Career:
She was encouraged by her father, in early life, to pursue her interest in natural history, geology, and zoology; Carnegie Fellow, Glasgow University, working with John Graham Kerr (1920-1922); worked at marine station at Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde (1922); took part in the Great Barrier Reef expedition based on Low Isles, north of Cairns, Queensland (1927-1928); investigated herring production (1934-1935); participated in the search of British coasts for seaweeds suitable as a source of agar and worked on methods of methods of harvesting the selected species, Gigartina, and supervised collection (1939-1945); partook in a field study on the effect on marine productiviety of the addition of artificial fertilizer in Loch Craiglin (1942); worked in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA (1970-71); visiting worker at the Villefranche-sur-Mer Marine Station laboratory, France (1974); her eyesight deteriorated as she began writing a history of the Scottish Marine Biological Association (later publlished in 1987); suffered an attack of pneumonia (1975); died of a heart attack.
Honours:
OBE 1966
Awards/Medals:
Neill Prize 1971
Honorary Degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden 1977
Memberships:
FRSE (1949) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1963 |
| Age at election | 67 |
| Proposer | Richard Julius Pumphrey |
| Carl Frederick Abel Pantin |
| James Eric Smith |
| Clifford Hiley Mortimer |
| George Philip Wells |
| John Edwin Harris |
| James Gray |
| Charles Maurice Yonge |
| Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey |
| Frederick Stratten Russell |
| Alister Clavering Hardy |
| Relationships | Parents: John Nairn Marshall, Doctor and amateur naturalist, of Stewart Hall, Rothesay, and Jean Coville, née Binnie.
Siblings: Two sisters. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 19739 |
| OtherInfo | Remembered for her lifelong study of plant and animal plankton, particularly in realtion to copepods, contibuting to our knowledge of plankton in temperate and tropical seas.
Distinguished for her researches on the productivity of the sea, especially in collaboration with Dr Andrew Picken Orr, chemist, authoring several books together.
First woman, along with Ethel Dobbie Currie, geologist, to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1949. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1978 vol 24 pp 369-389, plate, by Sir Frederick Russell |
| Code | NA5968 |