Everything about Maud Leonora Menten totally explained
Maud Leonora Menten (
March 20,
1879 –
July 26,
1960) was a
Canadian 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 studied
medicine at the
University of Toronto (B.A.
1904, M.B.
1907, M.D.
1911). She was among the first women in Canada to earn a medical doctorate. She completed her thesis work at
University of Chicago. At that time women were not allowed to do research in Canada, therefore she decided to do research in other countries such as the
United States and
Germany.
In
1912 she moved to
Berlin where she worked with
Leonor Michaelis, obtaining a Ph.D. in
1916. Menten worked as a pathologist at the
University of Pittsburgh (
1923–
1950) and as a research fellow at the British Columbia Medical Research Institute (
1951–
1953).
Her most famous work was on enzyme kinetics together with Michaelis, based on earlier findings of
Victor Henri. This resulted in the
Michaelis-Menten equations. Menten also invented the azo-dye coupling reaction for
alkaline phosphatase, which is still used in histochemistry. She characterised bacterial toxins from
B. paratyphosus,
S. scarlatinae and
Salmonella ssp.) and conducted the first
electrophoretic separation of proteins in
1944. She worked on the properties of
hemoglobin, regulation of
blood sugar level and kidney function. Despite suffering from arthritis she was also an accomplished musician and painter; there were several exhibitions of her paintings.
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