Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Muriel Robertson NPG x188707

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman

Robertson is recognised for her work on the Trypanosoma gambiense, a parasite carried by the tsetse fly which causes sleeping sickness. At Glasgow University her interest in protozoa had been encouraged by Professor Graham Kerr. After graduating, she worked at the Lister Institute and was appointed by the colonial office in Uganda to study the life cycle of trypanosome in 1911. During World War I, Muriel identified bacteria found in soil which caused gas gangrene and the death of soldiers in the trenches. Her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.