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[[Image:mlmenten.jpg|right|thumb|Maud Leonora Menten]]
'''Maud Leonora Menten''' ([[March 20]], [[1879]] – [[July 26]], [[1960]]) was a [[Canada|Canadian]] medical scientist who made significant contributions to [[enzyme kinetics]] and [[histochemistry]]. Her name is associated with the famous [[Michaelis-Menten kinetics|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 kinetics|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 [[electrophoresis|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<ref>[http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCEWWW/Features/eChemists/document.php?chemid=2 JCE Online: Biographical Snapshots: Snapshot<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>; there were several exhibitions of her paintings.
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