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Maud Menten

1879 - 1960

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Maud Leonora Menten (March 20, 1879 – July 17, 1960) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maud Menten has received more than 196,744 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Maud Menten is the 375th most popular chemist (down from 368th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Canada and the 5th most popular Canadian Chemist.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.06

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  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Maud Menten ranks 375 out of 509. Before her are Jennifer Doudna, André-Louis Debierne, Mathieu Orfila, Hermann von Fehling, Friedrich Stromeyer, and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. After her are Franz von Soxhlet, Thomas Andrews, Alexander William Williamson, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Peter Waage, and John William Draper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Maud Menten ranks 102. Before her are Othon Friesz, Josep Maria Jujol, Gorazd, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Rudolf Bauer, and Thomas Beecham. After her are Alfred Abel, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, José Giral, Frank Bridge, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg. Among people deceased in 1960, Maud Menten ranks 85. Before her are Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Chris Bristow, Jules Supervielle, St John Philby, Hashim al-Atassi, and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke. After her are Joseph Vendryes, Lottie Dod, H. C. Hansen, Roy Chapman Andrews, Auguste Herbin, and Leó Weiner.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Maud Menten ranks 166 out of 1,350. Before her are Michael Bublé (1975), David Shore (1959), Cobie Smulders (1982), John Ireland (1914), Elisha Cuthbert (1982), and James Gosling (1955). After her are Neve Campbell (1973), Robert Langlands (1936), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Hayden Christensen (1981), Walter Pidgeon (1897), and Jason Priestley (1969).

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Among CHEMISTS In Canada

Among chemists born in Canada, Maud Menten ranks 5. Before her are William Giauque (1895), Sidney Altman (1939), Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), and Henry Taube (1915).

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