Muriel Landau was born on 21 January 1895 and educated at Dame Alice Owens School, Islington where she gained an entrance scholarship to the London School of Medicine for Women. She qualified in 1918 and after house appointments at the Royal Free and at Queen Charlotte's Hospitals was appointed registrar to the Hospital for Women, Soho Square. In 1921 she took her MD in obstetrics and gynaecology and at the early age of 26 was appointed to the staff of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Her interests were mainly obstetrics and gynaecology, but she also practised general surgery and eventually she became the senior consulting surgeon, giving her services to the hospital from 1921-61, the year of her retirement. She was also on the staff of the London Jewish Hospital and the Marie Curie Hospital for Women. Miss Landau was an outstanding personality and over a period of some 45 years acquired a large private practice. During the second world war when the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital was evacuated to the country she continued her work there, travelling from London often in the black-out. For the years 1965-66 she was elected President of the Medical Womens Federation of Great Britain and she found time to help Zionist aspirations and for over 15 years she was chairman of the Doctors and Dentists Group for the Joint Palestine Appeal. In 1922 she married Dr Samuel Sacks who was in general practice in East London; she had four sons, three of whom became doctors. Miss Landau died suddenly on 13 November 1972 while on a visit to Israel; she was survived by her husband and her sons.