| Authorised form of name | Muir; Sir; Robert (1864 - 1959); pathologist |
| Dates | 1864 - 1959 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Balfron, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 05 July 1864 |
| Place of death | 25 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh,25 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of death | 30/03/1959 |
| Occupation | pathologist |
| Research field | Immunology |
| Pathology |
| Activity | Education:
Hawick high school; Teviot Grove Academy; University of Edinburgh MA, MB, CM, MD
Career:
Assistant to William Smith Greenfield (1892-8); lecturer on pathological bacteriology (1894-8); new chair of pathology at St Andrews (1898); chair of pathology at Glasgow (1899-1936); lieutenant-colonel in charge of the pathological and bacteriological routine of the 3rd and 4th Scottish general hospitals, as well as inspector of laboratories in Scotland (1914-1918).
Honours:
Kt 1934
Memberships:
FRCP
Medical Research Council
British Empire Cancer Campaign
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Awards/Medals:
Lister Medal 1936 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/05/1911 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Proposer | Charles James Martin; Rubert Boyce; Ernest Henry Starling; Ronald Ross; George Henry Falkiner Nuttall; James Lorrain Smith; Sidney Harris Cox Martin |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1929
Council: 1926-7 |
| Relationships | Parents: Revd Robert Muir (d. 1882), Presbyterian minister and Susan Cameron, daughter of William Duncan, a Dundee merchant. |
| Published works | RCN 31685
RCN 56425
RCN 56426
RCN 56427
RCN 19933
RCN 10324
RCN 56428
RCN 56429 |
| General context | Authority on diseases of the blood cells having established the relationship between the bone marrow and the sites of cell destruction, and wrote papers on intravascular haemolysis, iron absorption, and haemachromatosis.
Raised the status of the United Kingdom in world immunology.
Produced papers on cancer of the breast.
Produced an unsurpassed microscopical study of Paget's disease of the nipple. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
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 File | http://viaf.org/viaf/79392855 |
| Royal Society code | NA1224 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1911/11 | Muir, Sir Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/003210 | Muir, Sir Robert | nd |
| IM/003211 | Muir, Sir Robert | nd |
| MC/28/240 | Letter from [Edward Albert Sharpey]Schafer, Marly Knowe, North Berwick, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 27 February 1913 |
| NLB/39/333 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] J [James] Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 January 1909 |
| NLB/38/793 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Muir, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The University of Glasgow | 7 November 1908 |
| NLB/52/289 | Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society | 3 November 1915 |
| RR/18/115 | Referee'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 Caulfelid | October 1911 |
| RR/23/63 | Referee'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 Russ | 4 March 1917 |
| NLB/58/451 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Muir, FRS | 7 May 1920 |
| NLB/58/579 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Muir, FRS | 27 May 1920 |
| RR/18/114 | Referee'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 Caulfelid | October 1911 |
| RR/49/57 | Referee'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/46/65 | Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'The kinetics of Haemolysis in colloidal silicic acid—complement systems' by Eric Ponder | [November 1932] |
| RR/54/85 | Referee's report by Robert Muir, on a paper 'The kinetics of hæmolysis in cell-Taurocholate-serum systems' by Eric Ponder and Albert S Gordon | January 1935 |
| NLB/60/775 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Agent of the Bank of Scotland; 711 Great Western Road, Glasgow | 5 April 1921 |
| NLB/62/48 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Robert] Muir, FRS | 23 November 1921 |
| NLB/72/394 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, CMG, FRS | 30 September 1929 |
| NLB/68/357 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, KCMG, FRS | 24 June 1925 |
| NLB/69/884 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Robert] Muir, FRS | 8 November 1926 |
| NLB/71/656 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, C.M.G., FRS | 26 September 1928 |
| NLB/66/2 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. | 1 February 1924 |
| RR/32/12 | Referee'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 Armstrong | June 1925 |
| RR/32/14 | Referee'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 Armstrong | June 1925 |
| RR/32/17 | Referee'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 Armstrong | June 1925 |
| MC/23/314 | Letter from Robert Muir, Pathological Department, University of Glasgow, to The Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 28 October 1908 |
| MC/28/201 | Letter from Robert Muir, University of Glasgow, Pathological Department, to Sir John Rose Bradford, [Royal Society] | 18 March 1913 |
| NLB/47/683 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor R [Robert] Muir FRS | 14 March 1913 |
| MC/28/200 | Letter from Robert Muir, 16 Victoria Crescent, Dowanhill, Glasgow, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, [Royal Society] | 15 March 1913 |
| MC/32/190 | Letter from Robert Muir, 16 Victoria Crescent, Dowanhill, Glasgow, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 23 March 1917 |
| MC/22/277 | Letter from Robert Muir, 16 Victoria Crescent, Dowanhill, Glasgow, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 8 April 1907 |
| MC/22/278 | Letter from Robert Muir, Pathological Department, University of Glasgow, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 23 January 1907 |
| MC/22 | Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1907 |