Maud menten biography examples

  • Maud Leonora Menten was a Canadian biochemist and organic chemist best known for her work on enzyme kinetics.
  • Maud Menten was born and raised in remote regions of Canada.
  • Menten was known for her 18-hour workdays, for delivering one-third of all daily pathology lectures as well as attending every lab session, and.

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    Maud Menten, linocut 9.25" x 12.5" by Ele Willoughby, 2018
    Canadian medical researcher Maud Menten (1870-1960) has been called the "grandmother of biochemistry" and "a radical feminist 1920s flapper," and a "petite dynamo." Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics (like the plot in indigo in my portrait), she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, the first example of enzyme histochemistry,  still used in histochemistry imaging of tissues today (which inspired the histology background of the portrait), and she also performed the first electrophoretic separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!

    Born in Port Lambton, Ontario, she studied at the University of Toronto, earning her bachelor's in 1904, and then graduated from medical school (M.B., bachelor's of medicine) in 1907. She published her first paper with Archibald Macallum, the Professor of Physiology at U of T (who went on to set up the National Research Council
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    Maud Menten: Pioneering Pediatric-Perinatal Pathologist, Clinician-Scientist, and “the Most Wonderful Human Being in the World”

    Abstract

    Maud Menten was born and raised in remote regions of Canada. She obtained her MB/MD at the University of Toronto (1907/1911) and her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Chicago (1916). From 1907 to 1916, she trained at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the Berlin Municipal Hospital in Germany, and the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St Louis. In 1916, she was appointed as pathologist at the Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital, a charitable maternity hospital in Pittsburgh. She received a faculty appointment at the University of Pittsburgh (1918) and was appointed pathologist at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital (1926). In addition to being one of the first woman academic pathologists, she was likely the first perinatal, the second pediatric

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    The mystery of Maud Menten

    Maud Menten is best known for the Michaelis-Menten equation and her work on enzyme kinetics. She was born in Port Lambton, Ontario and she fryst vatten a graduate of the University of Toronto.

    The "mystery" concerns her degrees and the year she graduated. The film below was prepared when she was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 1998 [Maud Menten]. If you watch the first few minutes you'll hear that in 1911 Maud Menten was one of the first Canadian women to receive a medical degree. You find similar statements all over the web, although sometimes it says she graduated in 1913—as in the text on the Canadian Hall of Fame website.


    There's a slight bekymmer. We have pictures of every graduating class in the corridors of the main floor of my building. Her picture fryst vatten not in the graduating class of 1911. Not only that, there are a handful of women in the earlier Faculty of Medicine graduating classes dating back to 1907 and before tha