Florence R. Sabin

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birth_date = November 9 1871
birth_place = Central City, Colorado
death_date = October 3 1953
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nationality = American
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field = medicine
work_institutions = Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
alma_mater = Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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known_for = pioneer for women in science Sabin Health Laws
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Florence Rena Sabin (November 9 1871–October 3 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In her retirement years, she pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado, and in 1951 received a Central City, Colorado, on November 9, 1871. She graduated from Smith College in 1893, attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and was the first woman to graduate from that institution. In 1902 she began to teach anatomy at Johns Hopkins. Appointed professor of histology in 1917, she was the first woman to become a full professor at a medical college. In 1924 Sabin was elected the first woman president of the American Association of Anatomists and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences.

In September 1925 she became head of the Department of Cellular Studies at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. Her research focused on the lymphatic system, blood vessels and cells, and tuberculosis. In 1944 she came out of a six-year retirement to accept Colorado governor John Vivian's request to chair a subcommittee on health. This resulted in the "Sabin Health Laws", which modernized the state's public health system. In 1948 she became manager of health and charities for Denver, donating her salary to medical research. She retired again in 1951 and died on October 3, 1953.

In 1959, the state of Colorado donated a statue of Sabin to the National Statuary Hall Collection.

In 2005, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine honored Sabin's legacy by naming one of its four colleges after her.

References

*cite journal
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last=Wooley
first=Charles F
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year=2005
month=Aug
title=Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953), William Osler (1849-1919) and tuberculosis
journal=Journal of Medical Biography
volume=13
issue=3
pages=162–9
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*cite journal
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last=Sabin
first=Florence R
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year=2002
month=Feb
title=Preliminary note on the differentiation of angioblasts and the method by which they produce blood-vessels, blood-plasma and red blood-cells as seen in the living chick. 1917
journal=J. Hematother. Stem Cell Res.
volume=11
issue=1
pages=5–7
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pmid = 11846999
doi = 10.1089/152581602753448496
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*cite journal
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last=Harvey
first=A M
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year=1976
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title=A new school of anatomy: the story of Franklin P. Mall, Florence R. Sabin, and John B. MacCallum
journal=Johns Hopkins Med. J. Suppl.
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pages=97–113
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pmid = 801553
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*cite journal
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last=McGehee Harvey
first=A
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year=1975
month=Feb
title=A new school of anatomy: the story of Franklin P. Mall, Florence R. Sabin and John B. MacCallum
journal=The Johns Hopkins medical journal
volume=136
issue=2
pages=83–84
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pmid = 1090771
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*cite journal
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year=1963
month=Dec
title=Florence Rena Sabin, "First Lady" Of Colorado
journal=JAMA
volume=186
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pages=1090–1
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pmid = 14065365
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year=1953
month=Oct
title=Florence R. Sabin, M.D
journal=British medical journal
volume=2
issue=4843
pages=997–8
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pmid = 13094098
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last=BASS
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year=1950
month=Nov
title=Florence Rena Sabin, M. D
journal=Journal of the American Medical Women's Association
volume=5
issue=11
pages=466–7
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pmid = 14784430
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External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GSvcid=113&GRid=6653144& Find a Grave (burial site)]