Dorothy Stuart Russell

Dorothy Stuart Russell
Born	29 June 1895 Sydney
Died	19 October 1983 (aged 88) Dorking
Nationality	British

D S Russell

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

Life

Russell was born in Sydney in 1895. By the time she was eight both her mother and father had died and as a result she and her sister were sent to be cared for by her aunt at Fowlmere in England.^[1] She went to the Perse High School for Girls before gaining a first class degree at Girton College. She went on to study at London Hospital Medical College (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. She published A Classification of Bright's Disease in 1930.^[2] During the war she worked at Oxford University where she conducted research into brain tumours.

In 1944 she returned to London where she took over many of the duties of Turnbull.^[3] She took over as Professor of Morbid Pathology from her previous mentor Professor Turnbull.^[1]

Russell died in Dorking in 1983.^[3]

References

1. Professor Dorothy Russell, LHMC alumna, Pathology Institute Director, Retrieved 7 September 2015
2. J. T. Hughes, ‘Russell, Dorothy Stuart (1895–1983)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2015
3. Catharine M. C. Haines (1 January 2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. ABC-CLIO. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1.