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Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood (1896-1968) was a British paleontologist, specializing in fossil brachiopods.

She was born in Hampstead, England in 1896. She studied paleontology at Bedford College, and gained an MSc in iron ores. She carried out post-graduate research on Palaeozoic brachiopod faunas at University College, London with Professor Edmund Johnston Garwood. Apart from three years undertaking work for the Admiralty during World War II, she spent her entire career at the British Museum of Natural History, starting as part-time assistant in Geology in 1919 and eventually becoming Deputy Keeper of Paleontology in 1961. She was a pioneer in the classification of Mesozoic forms, and did her major work on the genera of productoids.

Muir-Wood was awarded the Lyell Fund in 1930 by the Geological Society of London, and in 1958 she won the Lyell Medal for her contributions to the study of the Brachiopoda. On her retirement from the British Museum of National History, she was awarded the OBE in recognition of her services to the institution.