Sheina Marshall
| Sheina MacAlister Marshall | |
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| Born |
20 April 1896 Rothesay, Scotland |
| Died | 7 April 1977 |
| Known for | Physiology and life history of copepods, marine productivity |
Sheina MacAlister Marshall OBE FRSE FRS[1] (20 April 1896, Rothesay - 7 April 1977) was a Scottish marine zoologist who worked at the Scottish Marine Biological Association, at Millport, Cumbrae.[2] She was "a well known authority on two interrelated subjects: the physiology and life history of copepods (especially the genus Calanus), and the characteristics of marine productivity."[3]
Life
Sheina Marshall was born in Rothesay, "the second of three distinguished daughters of Dr J. N. Marshall of Mount Stuart House".[4] She was educated at Rothesay Academy and St Margaret's School, Polmont. She studied at Glasgow University during World War I, graduating in Zoology in 1919. She held a Carnegie Fellowship at Glasgow from 1920 until 1922, when she joined the Scottish Marine Biological Laboratory in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae. There she worked with Andrew Picken Orr, with whom she co-authored several books and papers. She and Orr travelled to work with F. S. Russell and J. S. Colman on the 1928-29 Great Barrier Reef Expedition led by Maurice Yonge.[5] She retired as Deputy Director of the Station in 1964, but remained there as an Honorary Fellow.[6]
In 1949 Marshall and Ethel Dobbie Currie became the first women to be admitted Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1961, awarded the OBE in 1966, and won the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Neill Prize in 1971.[6] The library at the University Marine Biological Station Millport is now housed in a room named in her honour in 2010.[7]
Works
Marshall wrote over 60 scientific articles.[6]
- 'The Food of Calanus finmarchicus during 1923', Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, Vol. 12 (1924), 473-79.
- (with A. P. Orr) On the Biology of Calanus finmarchicus. VIII., 1955
- (with A. P. Orr) The Biology of a Marine Copepod, 1955
- 'Respiration and Feeding in Copepods', Advances in Marine Biology, 1973
References
- ↑ Russell, Frederick (1978). "Sheina Macalister Marshall. 20 April 1896-7 April 1977". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 24: 368–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1978.0011.
- ↑ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF) II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ↑ Charles H. Smith, Chrono-biographical sketch: Sheina M. Marshall, 2005. Accessed 18 December 2011.
- ↑ 'Dr Sheina Marshall', The Times, 15 April 1977
- ↑ Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29: scientific reports, 1932.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Biography of Sheina Marshall at the University of Glasgow.
- ↑ Sheina Marshall Library
Further reading
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 36 (2004).
- Elizabeth Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds, Rose Pipes, eds., The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
- 'Marshall, Sheina Macalister', in Catherine M. C. Haines, ed., International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950, ABC-CLIO, 2001, pp. 201–2
External links
- Charles H. Smith, Chrono-biographical sketch: Sheina M. Marshall
- Works by or about Sheina Marshall in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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