CHEMIST

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 211,824 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Maud Menten is the 416th most popular chemist (down from 375th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 166th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Maud Menten ranks 416 out of 602. Before her are John Walker, Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, Nils Gabriel Sefström, and Hans Tropsch. After her are John Tukey, Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Kathleen Lonsdale, and Michael Grätzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Maud Menten ranks 124. Before her are Joseph Canteloube, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Alfred Abel, Beals Wright, and Philippe Gaubert. After her are Kafū Nagai, Milan Šufflay, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Helena Roerich, Leonid Mandelstam, and Pavel Bazhov. Among people deceased in 1960, Maud Menten ranks 107. Before her are Sigurd Hoel, Knud Enemark Jensen, Catherine Desnitski, Joseph Vendryes, Harry Schell, and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke. After her are Hisamuddin of Selangor, Semyon Lavochkin, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Móric Esterházy, Massimo Bontempelli, and Zora Neale Hurston.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Maud Menten ranks 203 out of 1,622. Before her are René Lévesque (1922), Cindy Breakspeare (1954), Harold Innis (1894), Tommy Chong (1938), Peter North (1957), and Jean Béliveau (1931). After her are Chris Benoit (1967), Henry Clinton (1730), Philip Guston (1913), Joanna Shimkus (1943), Ethel Smith (1907), and Dave Foley (1963).

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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), Henry Taube (1915), and Rudolph A. Marcus (1923). After her are Martin Kamen (1913).

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