Women in Science: Maud Leonora Menten

At the age of 28, having been awarded a Masters degree in Science, Maud Leonora Menten was interested in doing research. Finding opportunities for women limited in Canada, Maud travelled to the US and went to work in New York at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 

In 1912  Maud travelled to Germany to work with Leonor Michaelis at the University of Berlin, and in 1913 they described the Michaelis-Menten equation, a concept that quickly changed the study of biochemistry and for which Menten as well as her German co-author earned worldwide recognition. They developed a tool that would become pivotal in the history of biochemistry: the Michaelis-Menten Equation. The equation, which provides a mathematical way to determine the rate of an enzyme reaction, has been called the foundation of  the modern study of enzymes.