Anna Macleod

Prof. Dr. Anna MacGillivray Macleod ,was born Kirkhill 15 May 1917 , the daughter of the Rev. Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod and Margaret Ingram Sangster, M.A. Anna was educated at Invergordon Academy , Edinburgh Ladies College, Edinburgh University with a B.Sc., Ph.D. , D. Sc. and Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. She became the first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry in the world.

The Dean of the Faculty of Science at Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh, Professor Philip G. Harper said that Anna Macleod’s association with the brewing industry puts her in the same fraternity as other scientists for example James Watt (power), Louis Pasteur (Pasteuriza-tion), Peter Greiss (colour chemistry), Lovibond (colour physics), Grosser (sta-tistics) and the Royal Society medallist, Horace Brown, the distinguished biolo-gist and brewer. All these scientists had a close association with the brewing in-dustry. He said that she was recognised nationally and internationally with dis-tinction as a university teacher, scholar, scientist, technologist and as a brewster.

                                A rare spirit indeed !   

Anna (as everybody in the world brewing industry effectionately called her) died at St. Raphaels, Edinburgh 13 Aug. 2004 .