Marion Frances Robinson CBE (née Harrison; 9 November 1923 – 25 February 2003) was a New Zealand nutritionist and physiologist.
She set up the first trace element laboratory for the School of Home Sciences at the University of Otago, and became internationally renowned for her work on selenium.
[9] She served as the head of the Department of Human Nutrition at Otago between 1985 and 1988,[15] and was conferred with the title of professor emeritus when she retired in 1989.
[16] Robinson died in Dunedin on 25 February 2003, and she is commemorated by a plaque in the Court of Reflections at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
[9] Following her retirement from Otago, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to nutrition education and research, in the 1990 New Year Honours.