Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

(Isabella) Helen Mary Muir NPG x173466

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

A pioneer of biochemistry, Muir's research proved that osteoarthritis did not occur as part of the ageing process but was an active disease, with environmental and genetic causes. Muir studied medicine at Oxford University but was encouraged by tutor Dorothy Hodgkin to study biochemistry instead. In 1948, she worked closely with Albert Neuberger at the National Institute for Medical Research. Arthritis became the focus of her research while a Fellow at St Mary's Hospital in London and in 1977 she became the director... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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