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Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_R._Sabin

1925 - Dr. Florence Sabin was the first woman elected to membership of the National Academy of Sciences. 1925, Sabin moved to the Rockefeller Institute to head the cellular immunology section, the first woman full member of the institute, and began to receive professional recognition at the highest levels. 1924 - Dr. Florence Sabin was the first woman to be elected president of the American Association of Anatomists. 1903 - Dr. Florence Sabin was the first woman to serve as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. 1902 - Dr. Florence Sabin was the first woman appointed to the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_283.html

Lovely photo of madame wu. My fave Wu quote: "There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all." if anyone's interested to read a bit more about her, I wrote an article about what she did and why it was great: www.schrodingerskitten.co.uk/articles/lovelace.html

She just died last year; an obituary: articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-01/features/ct-met-re... She was featured in a recent fundraising campaign at her alma mater, North Central College: northcentralcollege.edu/x47826.xml And on a personal note, she was born exactly on the same day as my grandmother, 29 November 1919.