[5] After attending Downe House, Newbury, she studied as an undergraduate chemist and doctoral student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

[3][4] She served in various positions throughout her career:[1] While at the University of Sheffield (1941–1942) Murray did research on organic chemistry as part of a team working for the Ministry of Supply.

[8] A 2013 BBC report[9] describes a secret major control bunker, later buried beneath the lawns of Magee College, Derry, Northern Ireland.

She was a member of the Committee on Higher Education in Northern Ireland chaired by Sir John Lockwood (1963–65), which recommended the closure of Magee College as well as the location of Northern Ireland's 2nd University being Coleraine (February, 1965) and led to the controversial creation of the New University of Ulster, from which she was later awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) Honorary Degree (1972).

[1] Dame Rosemary Murray was the first woman to serve as the following: She died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on 7 October 2004, aged 91, following a heart operation.