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Maud Leonora Menten (March 20, 1879 - July 26, 1960) was a medical
scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and
histochemistry. Her name is
associated with the famous Michaelis-Menten
equation.
Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario, and earned her doctorate degree in medicine at University of Toronto in
1913. She was among the first women in Canada to
earn a medical doctorate. In 1913, she first worked with Leonor Michaelis in Germany and then continued her career at University of Pittsburgh where she was part of the
Department of Pathology from 1918 to 1950.
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