Russell, Dorothy Stuart (1895–1983)

English pathologist. Born in 1895; died in 1983; educated at Perse High School for Girls in Cambridge; graduated from Girton College in Cambridge, 1918; London Hospital Medical College, M.B., B.S., 1923, M.D., 1930.

Born in 1895, Dorothy Stuart Russell became a well-known pathologist and professor of pathology. She began her academic career at Perse High School for Girls in Cambridge, England, and graduated with first-class honors from Girton College in 1918. Her time at the London Hospital Medical College, from which she received M.B. and B.S. degrees in 1923 and an M.D. in 1930, helped launch her accomplishments in research in the field of pathology. Russell wrote well-regarded treatises on various aspects of pathology, including "A Classification of Bright's Disease" (1929) and "Observations on the Pathology of Hydrocephalus" (1940, republished 1967). She worked at the Nuffield Department of Surgery in Oxford from 1940 until 1944. While serving as the director of the Bernhard Baron Institute of Pathology from 1946 until 1960, she also taught morbid anatomy. Russell's Pathology of Tumours of the Nervous System, co-written with L.J. Rubinstein, was published in 1959. In addition to being the first female member of the Medical Research Society, she was an honorary fellow and member of several distinguished academic and professional societies related to medicine and pathology, including the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Pathology. She died in 1983.

sources:

The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Kelly Winters , freelance writer, Bayville, New York