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Her work with [[Charles Glover Barkla|Professor C. G. Barkla]] resulted in her being awarded a PhD in 1943.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Spence|first=Ross, Marion Amelia|date=1943|title=Scattering and filtering of heterogeneous x-rays by matter of small atomic weight|journal=|language=en|volume=|pages=|hdl=1842/24283}}</ref>
For one year, she worked under the direction of [[William Lawrence Bragg]] at the [[University of Manchester]], and together with [[Arnold Beevers]], explored the structure of the crystal [[Beta Alumina]].<ref name="ZfK">{{cite journal| last1=Beevers |first1=C. A. |first2=M. A. S. | last2=Ross | title=The crystal structure of "Beta Alumina" Na2O 11Al(2)O3 | journal=Zeitschrift für Kristallographie| date=July 1937| volume=97| issue=1/2| pages=59–66 | doi=10.1524/zkri.1937.97.1.59|s2cid=102121580 }}</ref> They noted there were 'problem' sites in the areas occupied by mobile sodium ions. Subsequently, the presence of these ions was discovered to make this crystal an efficient [[superconductor]]. As a tribute to their discovery, the locations of these ions are now known as ''Beevers–Ross'' and ''anti-Beevers–Ross sites''.<ref name="beevers">{{cite web| url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/beevers_cecil.pdf | title=Cecil Arnold Beevers | work=Crystallography News | publisher=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] | year=2001 | accessdate=28 March 2014 }}</ref>
After the war she returned to the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer, studying high-energy particle spectra. She was the first Director of the University's Fluid Dynamics Unit. Some of her work was published in the journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref name="Nature 1949">{{cite journal|last1=Ross | first1=M. A. S. | first2=B. |last2=Zajac|title=Range-energy and other relations for electrons in Kodak nuclear plates|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |year=1948 |volume=162 |issue=4128 |pages=923|doi=10.1038/162923a0|bibcode=1948Natur.162..923R| s2cid=4124792 }}</ref>
In 1951 she became a [[Fellow (society)|Fellow]] of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], two years after the first female Fellows were admitted. Her proposers were [[Norman Feather]], [[Max Born]], [[Alexander Aitken]] and [[Edmund Taylor Whittaker|Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker]]. She was the first female Secretary to the Society (1993/4).<ref name=":0" />
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