Robert Muir

Robert Muir (1932)

Sir Robert Muir (born July 5, 1864 in Balfron , Stirlingshire , † March 30, 1959 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish pathologist and immunologist .

Muir was the son of a Presbyterian minister and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1880 , with a master's degree (MA) in 1884, a Bachelor of Medicine (MB CM) in 1888 and an MD in 1890. From 1894 to 1898 he was lecturer in bacterial pathology in Edinburgh , 1898/99 Professor of Pathology at St. Andrews University in Dundee and from 1899 to 1936 Professor of Pathology in Glasgow . In 1937 he received a doctorate in law (LLD). From 1946 to 1949 he was dean there. Muir was a leading pathologist in the UK specializing in the pathology of blood types and breast cancer. His Textbook of Pathology from 1924 with Edward Arnold was a standard work that is still in revised edition today (Muir's Textbook of Pathology, 14th edition, Hodder Arnold Public. 2001). He also wrote an early book on immunology and, with James Ritchie, a Manual of Bacteriology (1897), which also saw several new editions (11th edition 1949).

In 1911 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1916 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1929 he received the Royal Medal for his contributions to immunology. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Pathological Society, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In 1936 he received the Lister Medal . From 1944 to 1947 he was on the council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and from 1950 to 1953 its vice-president.

In 1934 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor .

Web links

• Obituary. In: British medical journal. Volume 1, Number 5127, April 1959, pp. 977-978, PMID 13638608 , PMC 1993337 (free full text).
• Literature by and about Robert Muir in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Muir Studies in Immunology , Oxford University Press 1909