Dorothy Stuart Russell (29 June 1895 – 19 October 1983) was an Australian born, British pathologist. She was a director of the Bernhard Baron Institute of Pathology.

Life

Dorothy Stuart Russell was born in

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, Australia in 1895, the second daughter of Phillip Russell and his wife Alice Cave. After the death of her father in 1898, and then her mother in 1904, she and her sister were sent to be cared for by their father's sister at

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in England.Professor Dorothy Russell, LHMC alumna, Pathology Institute Director
Retrieved 7 September 2015 She went to the Perse High School for Girls before going to the

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, gaining a first class B.A. degree at

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in 1918.

Medical studies

In 1918, Russell went on to study at the

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(LHMC) where she discovered a mentor in Hubert Turnbull. Turnbull was the Professor of morbid anatomy and she was funded to work with him for some years. After qualifying in 1922, she pursued pathology studies. In 1928, Russell won a Rockefeller Scholarship and worked with Frank Mallory in Boston, and

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at the

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. This year enabled her to move into a study of neuropathology. She graduated with her M.D. and the University Gold Medal in 1929. Russell published ''A Classification of Bright's Disease'' in 1930,J. T. Hughes, ‘Russell, Dorothy Stuart (1895–1983)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> and she further expanded on this in her D.Sc. in 1943. From 1929, Russell worked closely with Hugh Cairns until around 1944, at the Medical Research Council. During the war she worked at

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at the Military Hospital for Brain Injuries. In 1944 she returned to the London Hospital Medical College where she took over many of the duties of Turnbull. She was made Professor of Morbid Pathology, the first woman to be appointed in this position, succeeding her mentor Professor Turnbull in 1946. She published her work, ''Observations on the Pathology of Hydrocephalus'' in 1949. Russell published her work with Lucien Rubinstein, ''The pathology of tumours of the nervous system'', in 1959. She retired in 1960. She was appointed Emeritus Professor in 1960.

Memberships

Russell was a Fellow of the

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. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and Royal College of Physicians. She won the Oliver Sharpey Prize of the

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in 1968. Russell died in

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in 1983.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Dorothy Stuart 1895 births 1983 deaths Scientists from Sydney British pathologists People from Fowlmere People from Dorking Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom