Published “First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 1,765 times.
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Maud Menten
Maud Leonora Menten was a Canadian physician and chemist. As a bio-medical and medical researcher, she made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, and invented a procedure that remains in use. She is primarily known for her work with Leonor Michaelis on enzyme kinetics in 1913. The paper has been translated from its written language of German into English.
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science · Canadian physician and chemist (1879–1960) · chemist · physician · biochemist · pathologist · also Maud Menten, Maud Leonora Menten, Menten
Born 20 March 1879 · Died 26 July 1960 · Q7515
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2019· 4 entries
Published “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 1,328 times.
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Published “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 1,337 times.
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Published “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 1,497 times.
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Published “First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,674 times.
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (1998).
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Was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
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1960· 1 entry
Died 1960-07-26.
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1955· 1 entry
And she died July 17, 1960, at the age of 81, in Leamington, Ontario
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1950· 1 entry
Returned to Canada where she continued to do cancer research at the British Columbia Medical Research Institute (1951–1953)
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1948· 1 entry
Was at the age of 69 in the last year of her career
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1923· 2 entries
Still could not find an academic position for a woman in Canada; she took a position as part of the faculty of the medical school at the University of Pittsburgh while serving as a clinical pathologist at Children's
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And remained there until her retirement in 1950
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1916· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy (1916).
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1912· 2 entries
Menten returned to medical research, working with renowned surgeon George Crile, in whose honour the Crile crater on the Moon is named
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Moved to Berlin where she worked with Leonor Michaelis and co-authored their paper in Biochemische Zeitschrift, demonstrating that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-
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1911· 2 entries
Studied at University of Toronto, Doctor of Medicine (1911).
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Became one of the first Canadian women to qualify as a medical doctor
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1904· 1 entry
And a master's degree in physiology in 1907
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1889· 1 entry
When Menten was ten years old, the family moved west to the Harrison River region of British Columbia
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-03-20.
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