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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    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 is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

    The "mystery" concerns her degrees and the year she graduated. The video 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 problem. We have pictures of every graduating class in the corridors of the main floor of my building. Her picture is 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

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    Maud Menten, linocut 9.25" x 12.5" bygd 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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    Dr. Maud Menten, ca. 1910-1915. Courtesy, Archives Services Center, University of Pittsburgh

    In July of 1912 an extraordinary young scientist named Maud Menten visited Russell Coles at Cape Lookout, N.C.

    Other scientists visited the legendary shark hunter too, but none impressed him like she did.  After spending a week assisting her with a research project, Coles wrote a colleague at the Smithsonian, saying “Dr. Menten is unquestionably the most wonderful human being in the world.”

    This is chapter 7 of Shark Hunter: Russell J. Coles at Cape Lookout.

    Unlike the other scientists, Menten was not even an ichthyologist or any other kind of marine biologist.

    She was a brilliant young medical doctor and biochemist. She sought out Coles because she was looking for live specimens of a special kind of fish, the Brazilian electric ray (Narcine brasiliensis), for an experiment involving the effects of exhaustion on nerve cells.

    At the time she visited the North Carolina co